Loki Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I recently installed a copy of Mandriva linux on my laptop, and everything works great. It automatically detects all of my thumb drives but theres one problem. Whenever I try to connect my external HDD it says that it is unable to mount the HDD. My question is: is there something I could do to get linux to see the HDD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Install NTFS drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Install NTFS drivers? I did not know I could do that. How would I go about doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html ntfs-3g is still in beta though. You should not use it on production machines or without backups. openSUSE mounts them read only out of the box, and fedora just needs yum install kmod-ntfs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 it depends what format your hdd is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 i'm pretty sure that mandriva linux would have NTFS drivers by default if for some reason it doesn't, you can make sure that your disk is being detected properly by using Mandriva's graphical disk management tool you should be able to see it as one of your hard drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 You'd think Fedora would, but it doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Thanks for the quick replys. I will be trying these suggestions later and will post the results later today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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