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Moody external hard drive
Indrid Cold
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I got an external hard drive (western digital, passport, 320GB). I connected it to my computer and immediately reformatted it, making 2 partitions: 100GB NTFS and 200GB ext4.
After the reformatting, the drive wasn't recognised at all. Not even a partition manager (either the one I used -GParted- or the one in windows) acknowledged its existence.
I unplugged and replugged it a few times and in the end both partitions got recognised. Now it takes several seconds (a much longer time than my other 2-partitioned external drive does) but it seems to work.
Do you think it's ok, or faulty?
After the reformatting, the drive wasn't recognised at all. Not even a partition manager (either the one I used -GParted- or the one in windows) acknowledged its existence.
I unplugged and replugged it a few times and in the end both partitions got recognised. Now it takes several seconds (a much longer time than my other 2-partitioned external drive does) but it seems to work.
Do you think it's ok, or faulty?
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You could get Knoppix to take it apart for you.
It does(did) sound like a hardware problem. The drive should be discovered when plugged in, even if the OS doesn't like the filesystem in use.