[H-GEN] External Hard Drives

[Scott Wilson]

That's probably a munged partition table - try opening gparted and seeing
if you can wipe all the partitions and recreate them.

On 11 July 2012 14:33, Simon Cole <mellowcotton at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Thanks.
>
> WD's unlock program won't run on Ubuntu 11.10. It's certainly not plug and
> play - the unlock.exe simply opens qBitorrent and doesn't download anything
> to run; nor do any other applications appear to run it. Maybe there's a
> simple solution that I don't know... From what I can see WD is not good
> with Linux if you want to maintain encryption.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1284828&highlight=wd+unlock+exe
>
> I ask the question because non of the brands claim to run on a Linux
> distribution (not surprisingly), nor can I fund up-to-date info in forums.
>
> I don't need portable, but that's not important. I will need to run it on
> both Linux and Windows. Powered 1TBs go for $100. Ease of use matters more
> than encryption to me (if encryption is for security).
>
> Yours,
>
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> *From:* Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com>
> *To:* Simon Cole <mellowcotton at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Humbug Linux Support Group <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [H-GEN] External Hard Drives
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> All of them should be "compatible". They are just regular HDs formatted
> with some Win FS.
> If you are NEVER sharing them with Windows/OSX then you can reformat them
> with any
> of the Linux file systems (ext3/ext4/whatever).
>
> If all you want is a single TB then I would recommend one of the 2.5" USB3
> babies.
> If you don't have any USB3 ports now they will work happily on USB2. Once
> you move
> to USB3 they will fly. A USB3 PCI express card for a desktop/tower is only
> $20.
>
> I have a couple of the "Western Digital Elements Portable 1TB 2.5 HDD
> USB3" that you
> will find on the Umart site for $130. Never had a problem with them. They
> self-power on
> any USB2 or 3 port.
>
> One thing to watch is the device end of the supplied cable. The PC end is
> always a standard
> USB3 'A' connector (looks like and works in USB2, but has extra contacts).
> The WD drive
> (and the Seagate one) have a modified MicroUSB connector at the other end.
> One of these...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp_.jpg
>
> I find these the best as the wider section is a standard USB2 MicroUSB
> connector and you
> can use the older standard USB2 cables to connect the device at USB2
> speeds.
>
> Gary
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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Simon Cole <mellowcotton at yahoo.com>wrote:
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> What external hard drives (for data storage only) are compatible with
> Ubuntu 11.10 &/or Fudora 17?
> I need to go out and buy a new 1TB one and the brands I've seen are
> Buffalo, Seagate and Phillips.
>
> Simon
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