[ale] expansion drive

[n4zm at mindspring.com (zeb)]

There's the rub.  As the drive presently stands, it can't be formatted 
with Slack  12.2 or any of the flavors of Windows that I have (98se, XP, 
7).  The drive is not recognized by the operating systems.

I ran "ntfsfix" on the drive.  It reported "volume is corrupt. You 
should run chkdsk."  Don't see how I can run chkdsk if the drive is not 
recognized by Windows.

Appreciate the reply.  Thanks.  Any other thoughts?

Is a low-level format appropriate?  How would I do it?

Regards....Zeb

Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> In order for Linux systems to recognize and mount a drive, it needs to 
> be a format type that's known to the running kernel. You need to 
> either format the drive as fat32 or install ntfs tools on your Linux 
> system. Mkfs -t ntfs will not make a working partition for several 
> versions of ntfs tools.
>
> On Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM, "zeb" <n4zm at mindspring.com 
> <mailto:n4zm at mindspring.com>> wrote:
>
>     All:
>        I have a Seagate portable expansion drive that is not recognized by
>     Slackware Linux 12.2 (or Windows 98 SE, XP, or 7).  The drive is seen
>     during Linux boot, but it cannot be mounted.
>        The drive originally was formatted as NTFS.  I formatted it as ext2
>     and was able to mount it.  I then formatted it as NTFS (using mkfs -t
>     ntfs), and that's when the fun (or trouble) began.  I wrote Seagate a
>     week ago, but they have not replied.  Their web  site  says they
>     do not
>     support Linux.
>        Anybody have any thoughts as to how I can revive this paperweight?
>
>     Thanks, and regards....Zeb
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