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    External hard drive

    I got this seagate external 320 gb hard drive from a friend. He said he formatted it as ntfs file system. I did some researched and found ntfs-config tool. I installed it and when I ran it my hard drive which is /dev/sda did not show up. I there fore ran "eduardo@eduardo:~$ udevinfo -q env -n /dev/sda in my terminal and got
    ID_VENDOR=Seagate
    ID_MODEL=FreeAgentDesktop
    ID_REVISION=100D
    ID_SERIAL=Seagate_FreeAgentDesktop_9QF383FZ-0:0
    ID_SERIAL_SHORT=9QF383FZ
    ID_TYPE=disk
    ID_INSTANCE=0:0
    ID_BUS=usb
    ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:0c.2-usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
    ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
    ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
    ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
    ID_FS_UUID=a5936599-7cc1-4ef8-9dfc-279f4373d859
    ID_FS_LABEL=
    ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=

    I checked dmesg | tail and recieved the following:
    [ 1905.256000] NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
    [ 1905.296000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum.
    [ 1905.296000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
    [ 1905.296000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
    [ 1905.296000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
    [ 1931.348000] EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "nls=utf8" or missing value
    [ 2224.616000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum.
    [ 2224.616000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
    [ 2224.616000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
    [ 2224.616000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

    Please someone help. I am trying to use my external hard drive in kubuntu feisty fawn.
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    #2
    Re: External hard drive

    I wanted to add that I tried to go into system settings, disk & file systems to enable the external hard drive /dev/sda but when I tried to enable it I received the following error:

    An error occurred while enabling /media/disk.
    The system reported: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/disk/by-uuid/a5936599-7cc1-4ef8-9dfc-279f4373d859,
    missing codepage or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so
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      Re: External hard drive

      Sorry is I'm being silly, but I noticed you mentioned that you installed ntfs-config. However you made no mention of installing ntfs-3g. If you haven't done so, I would maybe recommend trying that first.
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        #4
        Re: External hard drive

        Originally posted by jaguaresmana
        ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
        EXT3 != NTFS
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          Re: External hard drive

          I checked adept manager and I already have ntfs-3g installed. How would I use that? Also I saw from UnicornRider what he pointed out. How would I fix that "ID_FS_TYPE=ext3" since the file system for my external hard drive is NTFS. I checked the hard drive under my dad's computer since it has windows xp and I checked the file system on it from disk management and it showed "NTFS". Thank you for all that reply
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            Re: External hard drive

            I got it to work properly, looks like it was /dev/sda1 not /dev/sda. Anyways I edit /etc/fstab and this is what it looks like

            # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
            #
            # -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
            #
            # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

            proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
            # Entry for /dev/hda4 :
            UUID=57fe0e76-fafa-4748-83a5-2844c7acb405 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
            # Entry for /dev/hda6 :
            UUID=36077a46-441e-4700-9721-8ea9155c5332 none swap sw 0 0
            #/dev/sda1 /home/eduardo/Desktop/storage ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,rw,users 0 0
            /dev/sda1 /home/eduardo/Desktop/storage ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0


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            However my problem is that I still cant drag and drop/add files to the external hard drive because it says i do not have the valid permission.

            So how to I fix this problem? I thought the last line owuld fix that. Thanks once again to all who reply
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              Re: External hard drive

              Originally posted by jaguaresmana
              /dev/sda1 /home/eduardo/Desktop/storage ntfs [...]
              You may have ntfs-3g (not: ntfs) installed, but you're not (yet) using it.
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                #8
                Re: External hard drive

                You've also got your umask set to write-only...
                For external use only.
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                  #9
                  Re: External hard drive

                  Originally posted by SheeEttin
                  You've also got your umask set to write-only...
                  Ooops
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