[olug] Portable HD box

[Shannon]

looks like you need to format the drive, if you are going to use it to
connect to an windows boxs you will need to format it NTFS, otherwise go
with a linux type like ext3.


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jack <jdunn110 at cox.net> wrote:

> Tyro question:
>
>        I just successfullly put together a portable hard drive box.
>
>        Now I'm trying to figure out how to use it.  Everything I Google
> just
> says "well, put the hardware together and plug it in, and it works."  But I
> think they left out something because my USB ports don't recognize it (they
> do find flashdrives without a problem).  And it is plugged in, turned on
> and
> connected to the USB port.  I can hear the HD spin up when I turn it on.
>
>        I have it partitioned as one big partition (320 GB) using fdisk and
> this is
> how "fdisk -l" displays it:
>
> Disk /dev/sdg: 320.0 GB, 320071851520 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdg1   *           1       38913   312568641    5  Extended
>
> (I set it to boot, but that didn't seem to help)
>
>        Does it need an operating system?
>
>        Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>        Jack
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