[ale] expansion drive

[Jim Kinney]

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.
On Oct 24, 2011 3:57 PM, "zeb" <n4zm at mindspring.com> wrote:

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