External Backup Disk Drive

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Ramesh,

what exactly do you mean with this?
> - brought up kubuntu (v11.10)
An external HD is just for backup storage, not for operating an OS! I
am wondering whether this is a reason that your drive still is not
recognisable  as a simple EXT4 storage device.

On the other hand,  I am happy with this:
> - tried Gparted Live ....

Gparted is an excellent package to (re)format, partition, etc.
My advise for now:
use GParted to again reformat your drive;
if, after this, you still have problems, change the ownership and
permissions of your drive via kdesudo or sudo mc - see first mail for
the details.
I hope, also others have useful ideas for your problem.

Have a good evening!
Respectfully yours,
Bas.



2013/6/24 Ramesh Rao <rameshrao55 at hotmail.com>:
> Hi Bas,
>
> I started well today - very promising. I can't say the same at the end.
>
> Summary:
>
> - KDE Partition Manager does not recognize the external drive.
> - tried Gparted Live. Pleasantly surprised to find this device /dev/sdc1
> displayed (NTFS format).
> - reformatted as ext4
> - during the whole process the Seagate Drive Power-on indicator was
> steady-green.
> - brought up kubuntu (v11.10)
> - once again, ext drive NOT detected by File Manager, KDE Partition Manager,
> fdisk, lsblk.  palimpsest recognizes but wrongly - it displays the drive as
> having eight partitions!! Only lsusb seem to detect the device.
> - Seagate Drive Power-on indicator does not light up at all.
>
> I wanted the backup mechanism working so that I could upgrade from 11.10 to
> 12.04. Now it seems I may have to upgrade just to get the ext drive
> functioning. Chicken and egg scenario.
>
> Have I exhausted all my options?
>
> Once again thanks  for your time. I appreciate.
>
> Ramesh
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:55:21 +0200
>
> Subject: RE: External Backup Disk Drive
> From: basroufs at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> 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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