<p>At this point I would dd the first 100mb of the drive to 0, fdisk to add a new partition and format it fat32, and make windows format it to ntfs.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 24, 2011 3:57 PM, "zeb" <<a href="mailto:n4zm@mindspring.com">n4zm@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There's the rub. As the drive presently stands, it can't be formatted<br>
with Slack 12.2 or any of the flavors of Windows that I have (98se, XP,<br>
7). The drive is not recognized by the operating systems.<br>
<br>
I ran "ntfsfix" on the drive. It reported "volume is corrupt. You<br>
should run chkdsk." Don't see how I can run chkdsk if the drive is not<br>
recognized by Windows.<br>
<br>
Appreciate the reply. Thanks. Any other thoughts?<br>
<br>
Is a low-level format appropriate? How would I do it?<br>
<br>
Regards....Zeb<br>
<br>
Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
><br>
> In order for Linux systems to recognize and mount a drive, it needs to<br>
> be a format type that's known to the running kernel. You need to<br>
> either format the drive as fat32 or install ntfs tools on your Linux<br>
> system. Mkfs -t ntfs will not make a working partition for several<br>
> versions of ntfs tools.<br>
><br>
> On Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM, "zeb" <<a href="mailto:n4zm@mindspring.com">n4zm@mindspring.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:n4zm@mindspring.com">n4zm@mindspring.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> All:<br>
> I have a Seagate portable expansion drive that is not recognized by<br>
> Slackware Linux 12.2 (or Windows 98 SE, XP, or 7). The drive is seen<br>
> during Linux boot, but it cannot be mounted.<br>
> The drive originally was formatted as NTFS. I formatted it as ext2<br>
> and was able to mount it. I then formatted it as NTFS (using mkfs -t<br>
> ntfs), and that's when the fun (or trouble) began. I wrote Seagate a<br>
> week ago, but they have not replied. Their web site says they<br>
> do not<br>
> support Linux.<br>
> Anybody have any thoughts as to how I can revive this paperweight?<br>
><br>
> Thanks, and regards....Zeb<br>
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