WD My Passport 1TB External USB Hard Drive issue

[Stanman]

change the mount point of the USB to HDD2.

As for connecting it to the laptop, you will (i think) need to format it as EXT3/4 but you can get software that will enable a PC to see a linux format. Hopefully Pooface or Silver will be able to confirm this when their on.

 

[Larry-G]

change the mount point of the USB to HDD2.

As for connecting it to the laptop, you will (i think) need to format it as EXT3/4 but you can get software that will enable a PC to see a linux format. Hopefully Pooface or Silver will be able to confirm this when their on.

Try this here.

http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows

 

[mcquaim]

Cheers lads,

I thought I was onto a winner there but still no joy.. Changing the mount to HDD2 still leaves the USB HDD as read only until I initialise it from the Duo and then it works fine.

I tried to download that ext2 file system for Windows as suggested by phoenix but it isn't compatible with Win7 I'm afraid.. Anyone know of a version for Win7? I have googled for it but every result that states it is Win7 compatible isn't.

I never realised that this would be such a tricky exercise lol..

Cheers,
mcquaim

 

[mcquaim]

Hi folks,

I was doing some reading on that ntfs-3g update for linux and came across this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

The problem is that when I modify the mount details for the USB HDD in the file /etc/fstab and change it to ntfs-3g when I reboot the Duo these details are reset.

Any way to stop this from happening?

Cheers,
mcquaim

 

[mcquaim]

Hi there,

I finally came up with a solution for this problem, took me a while

Anyway, I fould a piece of software that allowed me to format the USB HDD to FAT32 and that wouldn't limit the available size of the disk.

Here is the link:

http://www.verbatim-europe.co.uk/en_1/binarydata_verbatim-fat32-tool-exe_5444.exe

With the drive as FAT32 I can move files directly from the Duo over onto the USB HDD and also plug it into my laptop and browse the contents directly if required.

Hope this helps anyone else who might require this option.

Cheers,
mcquaim