External Hard drive issue

[Valter Mura]

Il sabato 8 dicembre 2007 10:36:23 lanzen ha scritto:
> > Once I boot with Linux and, after booting, turn on the external drive,
> > Linux "sees" the drive but I cannot access into it because the OS says
> > the disk is not mounted.
>
> Ok, I suppose you're running kubuntu gutsy so I think you you should
> have ntfs-3g installed by default. Do a
> sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
>
> To see what we're talking about the link is:
> http://flomertens.free.fr/ntfs-config/screen.html
>
> Check "Enable write support for external device" and see if anything
> changes. It might not.
>
> If it doesn't, and if when you plug your disk you see a window
> complaining about permission denied - but try it all the same ;) - in
> konsole run this command:
>
> sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/whateveritis /media/disk-[n°]-o force
>
> Before you do, check how your disk gets named. In my case it was sda1
> and the command was
>
> mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 -o force
>
> It it works, you might want to add a line in /etc/fstab.
>
> You can also find a few discussions, some of them quite recent, if you
> search the list for "ntfs usb mount".
>

Thanks, lanzen.

Please note that I'm not very skilled with command line (I'm an almost-ex 
windows user...), but I'll explain what I've done

I've installed ntfs-config, as you suggested: everything well.

I turned on the etx drive, but I couldn't open it because not mounted. In 
System setting/advanced/Drives and filesystem, I enabled the drive and then, 
because nothing seems to go well, I restart the OS (I obviously turned off 
the ext drive).

Then I turn on the drive again and the Kde deamon appeared asking me to choose 
an action. I chose "Open in a new window" and it launched Dolphin: Dolphin 
opens "system:/media/sda1/" and in the right bottom a progress bar, that 
says "loading address" stays at 0%, freezed. The drive seems mounted but not 
working (its working-red light doesn't blink...).

I tried to paste some file inside but it returns an error and 
klauncher/dolphin doesn't work anymore. Moreover, I cannot see what I have in 
my home folder... I must restart the os to arrange everything (with the ext 
drive off, of course)

But the big problem is now that, when I connects any usb drive (also a pen 
drive!) the system seems to freeze and dolphin/klauncher/ etcetera don't 
load. Also the memory seems to finish.

Now this is a big problem because I cannot use any pen drive (for me very 
important). I know this is an error of mine (I surely changed something 
important concerning sda1 in the System settings), but if anybody could give 
me a suggestion... I thank you in advance!

At least to use again in a normal way the pen drives...
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