Ubuntu :: FAT32 USB Harddrive Not Being Seen?

May 2, 2010

I think I have a corrupted file system on my 1TB harddrive as both Windows Vista and Ubuntu are not seeing it. How do I recover the drive. I have never experienced this sort of thing before.

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Ubuntu :: Convert External Harddrive From Fat32 To NTFS?

Apr 11, 2011

1. Is this possible without loosing the data on the external harddrive?

2. How is it done?

3. WIll I be able to read and write on both Ubuntu and OS X 10.6? (like I can now)

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Fedora :: Changed Harddrive Priority To Second Harddrive?

Mar 9, 2011

i've worked with Linux for a while now, but never in a double boot kind of way (except using wubi), and i'm still kind of a newby.i have 2 harddrivesfirst one has only 1 partition; Windows XPsecond one has 1 empty partition, simple storageand another partition where i installed fedora core, and GRUB is also located on this harddrive.I changed harddrive priority to my second harddrive, result:GRUB comes up, no problem, but when I try to boot windows, it tells mentldr is missing ctrl alt del to continueso i changed the harddisk priority back to the way it was, where the first drive containing windows is first priority... but then, no GRUB.i've tried editing the grub conf,i've tried fixboot/fixmbrtl;dr:no ntdlr when linux harddrive is main priorityno grub when windows harddrive is main priority

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Ubuntu :: Defragging FAT32 Volume

Jan 27, 2010

How would I go about doing this if I don't have Windows. I want to defrag my FAT32 external USB hard drive.

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Ubuntu :: Can't Find FAT32 Partition

Jun 24, 2010

I've a new format in my HDD and put win7 and ubuntu 10.04. I made a partition about 50GB so that i can get files from ubuntu to windows and the other way around.I can see that partition in windows but not in ubuntu.

P.S. i can see the windows partition in ubuntu

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Mac Hd Reformatted To Fat32?

Jul 6, 2010

I installed Ubuntu on my intel-based 5,5 macbook pro 13'', with rEFIt installed on the mac hd, everything worked fine and I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, as in a month or more, but you see I only partitioned my 150GB mac hd to 7gb to install ubuntu on, but after downloading all the software and media, of course that space is starting to look a little bit small, anyway I didn't notice that until actually Ubuntu started to act up, as in it's being too slow and unresponsive , well that's what I should expect when I'm severely running out of space right.

anyway the space I had left was only a few megabytes, so what I thought would solve this, is actually using the Mac HD, since I have 50gb or 90gb of free space, but actually I can't write on my mac hd, so after research I found out that Ubuntu can only read hfs+ but can't write unless it's fat32 or linuxswap or other formats, so to my unexperienced decision, I happily decided to simply reformat my mac HD from hfs+ to fat32 using Gparted, BIG MISTAKE, once I did it, which happened in 4 seconds mind you, I restarted my macbook, and to my unpredicted surprise, where rEFIt should load, nothing did, not even my MAC OS, just a blue screen was there...

of course I panicked, I mean nothing loaded, how am I going to be able to even fix this if nothing as in not even Bios is there...but after a while Ubuntu or Grub just loaded, so I thought good, at least I have an OS to post my problem using, I tried deleting some media to free up space so I could at lease open a web page.

so my problem is, is there a way to return my Mac HD after reformatting it to fat32, I tried to format it back to hfs+ but for some reason Gparted can't do that, and now I can't access anything on my Mac, I find it hard to believe that around 100gb of data could be deleted in a mere 4 seconds, but if it did, at least I want my mac and OS back.

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Ubuntu :: Fat32 Partition Can Be Used As /usr Or /home

Aug 22, 2010

can a fat32 partition be marked as /usr or /home during or after installing ubuntu?

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Ubuntu :: FAT32 Label Is Always Caps?

Nov 28, 2010

Yeah, I've been messing around with my partitions recently to make them more organized and appealing to my OCD file management habits. My main partition that I use to store all my files and windows programs on was previously labeled "Free" since I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago and created separate partitions for things, I didn't like the vagueness of the name, so I changed it to "Storage" via GParted Partition Editor.

Yet, for some reason it always changes its self to all capital letters. I label it "Storage", it becomes "STORAGE". I've researched around for others who have similar issues, but they usually ended up with a response similar to "It's Fat32, so it's always capital." I don't see how that's true, considering mine was labeled "Free" for the longest time..

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Ubuntu :: Fat32 Partition Becoming Read-only?

Jan 19, 2011

I have a partition to share files between Ubuntu and Windows, sometimes it becomes read-only but it's always reversible, this time it seems completely locked, all folders even have lock symbols and I can't change any file even if I open nautilus as root.

I can use it through windows with no problems, and have tried using PySDM to modify it but it's still the same.

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Ubuntu :: Converting To FAT32 And Mounting?

Feb 20, 2011

I have a 500GB Hard Drive NTFS format that is full of movies and pictures. I want to convert it to FAT32 and connect to XBOX 360.

I have GMount and have been doing test with a smaller 4GB flash drive. The drive was NTFS I was able to format it to a FAT32 no problem. Was not able to mount it in ubuntu so that I could actually add files to it . Ubuntu knows that the 4GB is their but will not let me open or mount it.

So can you change a hard drive to a FAT32 and still write to it from in Ubuntu if so how?

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Ubuntu Installation :: 10.04 On A Second Harddrive?

Jul 15, 2010

I am running windows 7. I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a second harddrive. I am new at this and would like to know the correct way to do it.

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Ubuntu :: 10.04 & Harddrive Not Found

Jul 5, 2011

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and recently installed Linux Mint on an other partition. I am now finding that when I boot up I get a message that Grub is unable to find a hard-dirve that does not exist.

how to tell Grub (or is it something/where else) not to look for a non-existent hard drive?

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Ubuntu :: Erasing Second Harddrive ?

Feb 5, 2011

I have two harddrives installed on my HTPC. I am using the smaller (120gb) to run the OS (kubuntu 10) the larger (1 tb) I want to use to store all of my media.

However....

The second hard drive has THREE linux Distros on it (from me testing and playing and making decisions) and I CANT figure out how to get them off.....

The hard drives are SATA and plugged in in the correct order.

I have tried fdisking and reformating which seemed to work, but when I boot it still asks me which OS i want to boot to.

Right now I am trying to zero out the hard drive by using ths

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

I typed that in as root about 15 minutes ago and hit enter. it hasn't said anything since. no command prompt or anythng. I am hoping it is working, we will see.

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Ubuntu :: Mount FAT32 Drive Automatically?

Jan 12, 2010

I am setting up a home server and have two hard drives. One is the main HD for system files and the other will be for personal files.

The personal HD is /dev/sdb.

I know I have to edit fstab in order to get it to mount automatically at boot, but I am having trouble with the commands.

I would like for it to mount at boot and have full read-write access from any user.

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Ubuntu :: Unison Sync To Fat32 Permissions?

Apr 3, 2010

My system consists of a laptop running Ubuntu 9.10, a network drive (Samba share formatted fat32 the only option) and a desktop PC running Windows XP. For several weeks have been trying to set-up Unison to synchronise files between my laptop and a network drive with only limited success. I mount the network drive locally with:

sudo mount -t cifs //netdrive/store /home/gm/NAS -o guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=07 77.

Then in Unison (graphical interface),

root 1 is: /home/gm/Shared_Docs
root 2 is: /home/gm/NAS/HomeBackup/Shared_Docs_Backup

After clicking the �OK� button, Unison searches for changes files and I click �Go�.

An error is then produced, a sample of which would be:

�Error in renaming /home/gm/NAS/HomeBackup/Shared_Docs_Backup/.unison.Our-inv.xlsx.f3e8034159989f9de7081f9154319a2b.unison.t mp to /home/gm/NAS/HomeBackup/Shared_Docs_Backup/Our-inv.xlsx:
Input/output error [rename(/home/gm/NAS/HomeBackup/Shared_Docs_Backup/.unison.Our-inv.xlsx.f3e8034159989f9de7081f9154319a2b.unison.t mp)]�

If all files in the destination directory (root 2) are first deleted, all files are copied correctly without errors so, I think the problem may be caused by permissions where Unison is unable to overwrite the original file. I know formatting the network drive fat32 is probably making the matter worse, unfortunately I have no alternative.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Using FAT32 Partition As Swap?

Apr 5, 2010

I'm installing a new SSD this upcoming weekend. My thought was to go easy on it so it lasts longer by putting my swap files on a mechanical drive instead of the SSD. I don't - however - want to waste space for swap files. It would be nice if I could use the same 6GB FAT32 partition for swap files for both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Is this possible? It might not even be necessary though, I have enough RAM that I rarely use the swap file at all (I've even considered going without swap all together), so it probably won't pose a huge load to the drive.

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Multimedia :: Defrag A FAT32 USB-stick In Ubuntu?

Apr 24, 2010

How to defrag a FAT32 USB-stick in Ubuntu?

When my parents got a new 16:9-television I found, it has a USB-slot to display photos. So I bought a new 2 GB USB-stick for them and copied over some photos. Well it works quite well, if you organize the photos in folders (because a flat list is simply unmaintainable).

I really spent some time to work this out on my laptop. But the next day I showed it to my parents on their TV, the photos came in seemingly random order. Taking a second look the order is not really random, but shuffled once for all time. The television does no sorting at all and shows the photos in the order, the files were added to the directories.

As I understand from the documentation of the TV, defragmentation can not only rewrite files so their contents are in a neat sequence, but also reorganize folders and especially sort the entries. There is just one problem: My last WinXP-PC was already recycled, though I still have the installation-CD.

Now I definitely don't want to install WinXP everytime over Ubuntu, just to do some defragmentation now and then. Moreover I don't want a dual-boot, as it would tempt me, to abandon Ubuntu and switch back to WinXP.

On the other hand, I don't want to bother my friends with this little problem, as far as admitting, there are things I simply cannot do with Ubuntu won't help me persuade them, that Ubuntu is a veritable replacement.

Finally the TV and the stick are at my parents home which is quite a distance away. I imagine bringing more photos on my laptop *TO* them, but not taking the stick with me every-time, just to "repair" it on some WinXP-PC somewhere far away, thereby effectively taking all the other photos away *FROM* them.

Getting more specific:

1. Are there any defragmentation / reorganization / reparation tools to maintain FAT32 under Ubuntu?

2. Has anybody ripped Scandisk+Defrag from WinXP and got it running with wine? Is this save in the way, that it will not damage the FAT32 filesystem?

3. I've installed WinXP in VirtualBox from Sun (not the OSE-version). But so far I could not access any USB device. The menu-entry in virtualbox is simply grayed out.

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Ubuntu :: Automount HFS+ / FAT32 Partitions At Startup?

Jun 18, 2010

What should be added to the fstab file? I want to automount partitions sda2 (HFS+) and sda5 (FAT32) at startup.

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Ubuntu :: Non-destructively Converting FAT32 To NTFS And Such

Aug 14, 2010

how to non-destructively convert a FAT32 HDD into something generally better like NTFS or Ext2/3/4 and etc? Also, what filesystem would you recommend?

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Ubuntu :: Txt File Association Fail On Fat32?

Sep 15, 2010

I have a Windows 7 partition, a fat32 partition that I use for moving data between Windows and Linux, and an Ubuntu partition. On the Ubuntu partition, I can right click on a text file and the top of the menu says "open with 'gedit'." On the fat32 partition, the same action says just "open," and the "open with" submenu doesn't include gedit.

If I right-click and choose properties on the same file, the "open with" tab shows gedit as the default file association. So that's weird... anyone else seen anything like this?

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Ubuntu :: Creating A Shared FAT32 Partition

Oct 3, 2010

I am dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu 10.04 using grub. I am using a 1tb samsung hard drive. Ubuntu has 750gb and windows has 250gb. I want 500gb of my HD to be FAT32 so I can put all of my music, pictures, and videos on it. I don't have more than 100gb used on either partition.

I have done quite a bit of searching and browsing, but I can't find a good step by step guide to do this. I am guessing I need to figure out how to use fdisk?

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Ubuntu :: Use The Rest Of Harddrive Without Reinstalling?

Jan 7, 2010

I thought I installed properly, but once again I've made a mistake. I'm trying to make use of the 114 gb I didn't assign as file system space, but I can't seem to access it or write to it. I've officially run out of space in my file system and I've got a lot to do still. Any thoughts on how to make the unused partition accessable?

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Ubuntu :: Access A Slave Harddrive Via Ssh?

Mar 12, 2010

I want a new user to be able to access a slave harddrive via ssh, how do I sent up an account for that person it is on a local lan

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Ubuntu :: Gparted Won't Format Harddrive

Mar 17, 2010

I tossed a 500GB hard drive into my machine (Ubuntu 64 8.10) so that I could back some files up. This drive when last used was part of a software RAID (no longer in use.) I deleted the partition that was on it, and tried to reformat using Gparted to ext3...but it won't work. The only error message I get is that it failed. Details do not provide any additional information. I went to the command line and attempted to mount it just to see what would happen, and I got this:

Code:
~$ sudo mount /dev/sde1 /media/backup1
mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'

Apparently, it still thinks it's part of the RAID. What can I do to erase and reformat this drive?

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Ubuntu :: How To Automount An Internal Harddrive

Mar 18, 2010

I have a hard drive that doesn't auto mount when the computer boots up.You have to do it manually.How do I get it to start up along with the external usb hard drives?

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Ubuntu :: No Harddrive Detected During Installation / Fix It?

May 5, 2010

During the installation of Ubuntu from a LiveCD my harddrive doesn't seem to be detected. I cannot create partitions. I used Gparted to shrink my Windows partition. There's 23 GiB of unallocated space, but it's not being detected.

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Ubuntu :: Reformatting An External Harddrive?

May 6, 2010

I have a Seagate Expansion external drive.

It won't load as it is NTFS. Am I okay to reformat it using GParted? I'm unable to get the drive up in a window, but GParted can see it.

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Ubuntu :: Linking A Folder To A Harddrive?

May 13, 2010

i would like to link a folder, in my case that is 'Pictures' to a different harddrive with a folder containing pictures.So whenever i save pictures it would save by default onto the harddrive with the linked folder.How can i do that. I tried to do it with ls i think but this makes softlinks which did not let me open automatically open the other folder. omg i hope i don't make it to complicated to understand.So here a visual plan of it.the default folder/home/user/pictureslike to link it to /media/pictures/photoshotsso this is the harddrive (another internal harddrive) which contains a different folder where i store my photos in general.

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Ubuntu :: Filepath To Other Part Of The Harddrive?

Oct 13, 2010

i have 4 different harddriveparts (i hope that is the correct translation), on my PC, one for the OS (ubuntu) and 3 others for programms and documents for example. But now i need to go in a folder on another part in the console.

The other part has the id E61441A014417519, so i would guess that the order you have to enter would be: "cd mediaE61441A014417519folder" and then i would be "in" the folder, but the console said that there is not even a folder named "E61441A014417519".

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Ubuntu :: Installation On Separate Harddrive?

Oct 29, 2010

Thinking of installing 10.10 on a separate hard drive but i would like to have a separate boot file for ubuntu how to do that?

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