compatible ?

Raymond House raymondh40 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 14:40:46 UTC 2015


Thanks for the info Stephen,they say that you could format it for Mac.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Stephen M. Webb <
stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:

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> On 15-09-11 10:25 AM, Raymond House wrote:
> > Hi, would a 2TB WD Elements usb 3.0 external drive be compatible with
> Linux? They say it's formatted for
> > windows.Would this work with ubuntu? Thanks.
>
> USB 3.0 hard drives are usually pretty standard hardware and supported in
> Linux.
>
> Most Linux kernels on desktops are configured to support the more common
> Windows file systems (eg. NTFS), so that too
> will probably work. You may have difficulty running the bundled bloatware
> that comes on a pre-formatted hard drive
> because its usually Windows-only.  You would also have the option of
> reformatting it to your own liking.
>
> The only problem you are likely to encounter is if the disk is
> pre-formatted in a special encrypted format that
> requires something installed on a Windows host to use it.  Even then, the
> hardware will work and you can reformat into
> a standard, supported format.
>
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