help mounting usb hard drive formatted as ntfs

[solemneyed]

No, I've used it under windows for a year or two. Now that I've converted my 
home desktop to linux, I want to mount the drive, copy everything off of it, 
and then reformat it so linux can read & write to it.

I did the fdisk you mentioned (as root), but nothing happens:

root at valinor:/home/solemneyed # fdisk -l /dev/sda
root at valinor:/home/solemneyed #

Thanks,

s

On 6/1/05, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <zamb at saudi.net.sa> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:52 -0700, solemneyed wrote:
> > When I do that, it says "mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not
> > exist"
> Hi solemneyed...
> 
> Is the USB hard drive by any chance *NOT* configured? In other words,
> is there any partitions on it? From the outputs you posted, it appear
> as if it's brand new and there is no partitions on it.
> 
> To check, run the following after connecting the drive and post the
> output:
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> >
> > However, in the GUI System Monitor, this info for the disk is listed:
> >
> > Device Directory Type Total Free
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs 442.7MB 442.7MB
> That's normal.
> 
> >
> > So, thanks for your help but I'm still stuck.
> I hope we could help you.
> 
> >
> > sz
> > --
> > People suck. Except you.
> > http://www.solemneyed.com
> >
> >
> Ohhhhhh, thst's sweeeeet. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Ziyad.
> 



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