Dumb gnubie hard disk question, part II
Eberhard Roloff
tuxebi at gmx.de
Thu Oct 23 15:09:43 UTC 2008
Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:26 AM, <jdesmond at fast.net> wrote:
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sdb1 * 1 1023 8217243 55 EZ-Drive
>>
>> And then:
>>
>> john at blackbox:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/westdigA
>> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> EZ-Drive is microsoft's implementation of LVM. It is not a standard
> NTFS partition. I don't know if mount currently handles it. Perhaps
> someone has an answer?
>
> If you boot windows, right click "my computer and select manage,
> there is a branch of the tree for managing drives. Using that
> utility, you can convert the drive to regular NTFS and mount it under
> Linux.
>
>
I am afraid, this is not correct.
Imho EZ-drive was used years ago as a sort of overlay Bios to use the
full harddrive capacity when the old Bios could not recognize (all of) it.
To remove it, google for "ez drive removal" or have a look here for more
insight on the associated problems (attention: this one is for a maxtor
Harddisk, yours is western digital!).
Kind regards
Eberhard
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/43457-maxtor-hd.html#post194418
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