External Hdd

[Matt]

So I just bought a case to put my old hard drive in, it's USB. Installed everything fine, Vista saw it immediately, but Ubuntu did not. Here's was I was given:

Is this because when I removed it in Vista, I didn't do "Safely Remove Hardware" ?

I got it mounted with

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/ExtHDD-80 -o force

But it returned

fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/ExtHDD-80: No such file or directory

Also, strangely enough, it's an 80gb HDD, but Ubuntu describes it as ~24gb. What's going on?

Thanks

[jcl]

I get a similar error every time I connect a particular HDD. I gave up on it.

I don't think I've ever seen ntfs-3g successfully mount a partition.

[Matt]

I booted back into Vista and reformatted the drive. Ubuntu saw it immediately, at it's full size.

*Matt shrugs

[baker7]

I booted back into Vista and reformatted the drive. Ubuntu saw it immediately, at it's full size.

*Matt shrugs

Matt:

What kind of drive is it??? Have you had any luck with USB External Drives? This information will help me when I have my server

Brian

[Matt]

Brian, It used to be an internal Western Digital IDE hard drive. When I got my last PC, the motherboard only supported SATA connections, so I just had it lying around. I decided to buy an external case so I could connect it via USB.

It is now formatted to NTFS (so linux and windows machines can see it) and Ubuntu now recognizes it and mounts it automatically when plugged in.