hehe, one way of getting people hooked on Linux :-) But on a slightly more serious note, what is your file system on that drive, and did you allow a full fsck to run on it from the Linux side ? Cheers Szemir
On July 19, 2008 18:52, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Greg, > I do one better: I bought a SeaGate FreeAgent 500GB USB drive and it ran > fine under both Windows(Vista Ultimate) and [K]ubuntu. All of the sudden > Windows stopped recognizing the drive (i.e the OS sees the drive; but it > assumes it's empty), while [K]ubuntu sees the whole thing. The SeaGate > site says among other thing, that the drive should be -reformatted as a > last ditch effort to get it to work on Windows--The problem is, I do not > have a second 500GB drive to transfer the data from the first one. So > for now, I only use it in [K]ubuntu (and copy anything worth saving to > it under [K]ubuntu from the Windows partition)... _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
