extern hard drives

[Doug Pollard]

H.S. wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
>   
>> H.S. wrote:
>>     
>>> Doug Pollard wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> HI All,
>>>>     I have a dual boot system with xp and ubuntu8.04  running.  I also 
>>>> have two usb hard drives with media on them.  I formatted them with 
>>>> gparted as fat 32 with the thought that I would be able to read with 
>>>> ubuntu and xp.  Xp cannot see either drive. Does any one have any idea 
>>>> why Xp can't see the drives.  Xp is using ntfs should it be able to see 
>>>> and read fat 32 drives?? 
>>>>                                                  Doug
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes, XP should be able to see FAT32 filesystem. BTW, I believe XP comes
>>> with USB drivers built in, correct?
>>>
>>> When you used gparted, you partitioned the drives as fat32. But did you
>>> also create filesystems on them? Did you save any data on them from Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> ->HS
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> The drives are formated by Gparted and are labeled Media. I guess this 
>> means I created a file partition? There are ubuntu Pictures, other files 
>> and video on one drive.   The second drive is empty.   If I knew how, I 
>> would divide the empty  hard drive to save ubuntu back up and xp back up 
>> in another partition .
>> I hope this answeres your question??
>>                                                                          
>>                 Doug
>>
>>     
>
> The first drive then should have a file system. Not sure why you cannot
> see this in XP. The other drive may or may, I cannot tell from the above.
>
> Can you do one more thing? Boot into Ubuntu, connect both the drives and
> then in a terminal give the command:
> $> mount
>
> and paste the output here while noting which lines in the output are for
> the usb drives (they should start with /dev/sdxn) where x is a,b,c...z
> and n is 1,2...
>
> ->HS
>
>
>
>   
Below as you requested. Aloso the  drive here is the second drive on my 
computer the first has xp installed.


doug at doug-Linux:~$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/doug/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=doug)
doug at doug-Linux:~$
                                                                         
               Doug