External Backup Disk Drive

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Ramesh,
really the best thing to do is reformatting the drive into EXT4, not NTFS!
Use either Palimpsest or KDE Partition Manager.
May be you can also check KDE Partition Manager.
The screenshots you show, remind me of the situation I had before
reformatting my 2 TB drive, a 'Western Digital'.
I had exactly the same problem '. Ever since I have reformatted it, it
works flawlessly.

> is it possible that the drives need to be reformatted? Right now the
devices ... show "0 bytes Capacity",

Something like this I remember also from my Western Digital HD before
reformatting it.

! You need only to reformat your external HD, not anything else!

Check also your drives with KDE Partition Manager - probably better to
reformat your external drive via that package.


> Although I thought the drives come formatted mostly in NFTS format (as
already mentioned by you in an earlier email).
- I am little skeptical about reformatting, reason - I may have to
ultimately return the drive

This is not an issue in my opinion. NTFS is just a file system. When using
Linux, you can better work with EXT4 - another file system.


Have a good day.
Bas.
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