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Offline C5Allroad

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External Hard drive help anyone?
« on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 21:31:58 »
I'm stumped as of now. In ubuntu I make folders and toss pictures into them and videos. However on windows that folder is non existent.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 21:34:31 »
Which folder are you talking about?
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 21:38:52 »
Well I can mount the hard drive on both OS's. But once I go into the drive itself, folders that I've made on ubuntu are hidden. I've tried going in windows and changing it to show hidden files but no dice.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 21:52:44 »
I think you may have that virus worm/ torjan, that hides folders and spreads itself when you click on stuff
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 22:04:12 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 24 January 2016, 21:52:44
I think you may have that virus worm/ torjan, that hides folders and spreads itself when you click on stuff
Could be.. But also another folder that had the same issue showed up eventually some day.
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External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 22:22:22 »
Isn't there **** shut about the formatting?

Try creating a partition on the external and format the new partition as NTFS.

I think Ubuntu normally uses ext3 or ext4 (if that's even what they are called. I don't use Linux) and that might not be a readable format for windows

Do a small partition like 1gb or something
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 22:33:51 »
I'll play with it a bit. But as of now, the drive is in NTFS.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 22:39:01 »
Unless I am missing something, I didn't think windows could see stuff from a drive formatted for Linux.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 24 January 2016, 23:17:11 »
If that's the case then that's something I learned. 
I never reformatted the drive when installing ubuntu and just plugged it in and used it.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 25 January 2016, 01:52:45 »
Unless things have changed, Linux support for NTFS has always been shaky.

Can you try typing the directory name into the address bar of Windows Explorer.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 25 January 2016, 02:29:47 »
I dont have much that would help with your issue, but personally on drives that i use on both windows and linux systems, i tend to format them in either FAT32 or extFAT and dont have any issues, and i usually format them in windows. I dont usually format any drives that i use on both OS's in linux or as ext 3/4 ets...
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 25 January 2016, 06:57:52 »
In my experience Ubuntu has been happy with NTFS. FAT32 works great except that it will choke on files larger than 2GB (movies).

I used to have a program that let Windows see something like ext3 but it was shaky, like they said, and maybe even read-only, I can't remember exactly.
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Re: External Hard drive help anyone?
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 25 January 2016, 17:22:21 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 25 January 2016, 06:57:52
In my experience Ubuntu has been happy with NTFS. FAT32 works great except that it will choke on files larger than 2GB (movies).

I used to have a program that let Windows see something like ext3 but it was shaky, like they said, and maybe even read-only, I can't remember exactly.

I haven't really ha an issue with NTFS on any of the distros i use either.
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