Help with an Ext HDD

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    oldskooladdict

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    Right, I should point out the issue here is the drive, to my knowledge anyway.

    External HDD 1 - NTFS formatted, works fine - plug it in, can read and write fine to it, eject it and its all sorted.

    External HDD 2 - NTFS formatted, doesnt work! - I can only read on the drive, no writing is possible.

    In Win XP I have formatted the drive, it still didn't work, I deleted the partition, created a new one, still didn't work.

    The drive works fine in XP, but not in Linux - SO... what am I doing wrong? - NTFS drives DO seem to work, but this one does NOT but it DOES work in XP!

    (It's a Seagate FreeAgent Go, 120gb)
     
    oldskooladdict, Sep 22, 2008
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    I also have the Seagate freeagent. I just tried it when I read your post and yep, it has the same problem.

    It does work with Ubuntu, as I have it running on a desktop system and it works with that (I think) so I'm guessing it's something to do with Linpus.

    I remember kicking myself just after I bought it as I read that it wasn't fully compatible with linux - something in the power management of the drive caused it to shut down in use.

    If you have a windows machine to play with you could try formatting it to fat32 using Seagate disk wizard. Note I haven't tried this as I have essential data on the drive.
     
    Daymo, Sep 28, 2008
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