<div dir="ltr"><p>Hello Ramesh,<br>
really the best thing to do is reformatting the drive into EXT4, not NTFS!<br>
Use either Palimpsest or KDE Partition Manager.<br>
May be you can also check KDE Partition Manager.<br>
The screenshots you show, remind me of the situation I had before reformatting my 2 TB drive, a 'Western Digital'. <br>
I had exactly the same problem '. Ever since I have reformatted it, it works flawlessly. </p><p>> is it possible that the drives need to be reformatted? Right now the
devices ... show "0 bytes
Capacity", </p><p>Something like this I remember also from my Western Digital HD before reformatting it. <br></p><p>! You need only to reformat your external HD, not anything else!</p><p>Check also your drives with KDE Partition Manager - probably better to reformat your external drive via that package. <br>
</p><p><br></p><p>> Although I thought the
drives come formatted mostly in NFTS format (as already mentioned by you
in an earlier email).<br>- I am little skeptical about reformatting, reason - I may have to ultimately return the drive </p><p>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. <br>
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Have a good day.<br>
Bas.</p>
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