Joe Pruett wrote:
Dick Steffens wrote:
>> I have a 30 GB Maxtor drive installed in a USB case. I successfully
>> backed up some files from my XP laptop to that drive through the XP's
>> USB port. Then, I tried to mount the drive on my Ubuntu desktop. I get
>> the following error message:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Cannot mount volume.
>>
>> Unable to mount the volume.
>>
>> Details
>> $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (, 1) Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1':
>> Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in
>> use.
>>
<...>
> it sounds like you didn't use the 'remove safely' option before yanking
> the drive. i'd suggest hooking it up, run a chkdsk (via the
> properties->tools->repair option), then make sure you do the 'remove
> safely' magic (can't recall if xp has that directly in the right click
> menu or if you have to use the removable drives thing in the task tray).
> after that, ubuntu should be happier.
>
> but if you'll be moving this around a lot and have no real need for ntfs,
> you might want to reformat as fat32.
>
I am likely to be moving it between XP and Ubuntu, and I have no real
need for ntfs, so I followed your advice and reformatted the drive as
fat32. Now it mostly works as expected. The only thing that happens is
that I get an error message about Windows not writing all of the data.
Sounds like there needs to be a way to flush a buffer. On the other
hand, everything I wanted copied, was successfully copied. I'm not sure
what wasn't. I didn't recognize the path name mentioned (and, sorry, I
didn't write that one down).
Thanks for the recommendation on fat32.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
www.dicksteffens.com
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