I have a USB drive formatted as NTFS than runs properly under Windows and openSUSE 11.1. However, if I plug it in under Linux, then remove it properly and insert it under Windows, Windows stops showing it as NTFS, and instead says I need to format it. This has to be something Linux is doing to it, because I’ve never had this problem using this drive on MAC and Windows system in conjunction; only openSUSE and Windows. How do I get openSUSE to stop “removing” the format from my drive? Thanks!
I have 5 external USB drives, NTFS format, and I do not have this problem. I suspect you are doing something wrong with Windows to cause this. I seriously doubt that that this Windows problem has anything to do with Linux.
Ensure when you remove an NTFS formatted USB drive under both Windows and Linux that you remove it properly
I have never had this problem with any of my devices before I got openSUSE. It works with Windows perfectly normal, as well as with Mac and Windows, also perfectly normal. When I remove it in Linux, I mouse over the Computer icon and click the eject icon next to the drive, and I do the equivalent of this on Windows. I installed openSUSE 11.1 yesterday, and that’s when I started having this problem. Anything else that could be causing this? The circumstances don’t seem to point to a Windows problem, otherwise I would have thought I’d be having this problem before. Thanks!
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It’s about as likely that either OS is doing it, or that your drive just
recently started flaking out. I have a few coworkers and friends that
use NTFS to move among their systems (only thing from microsoft that can
handle big files, and of course Linux has reverse-engineered enough to
get it working well too) and my own and all work just fine. External
drives seem to have a bad reputation of going bad. If nothing else copy
the files off into your Linux system (assuming your Linux system has
room and can still read the drive’s contents) and then reformat it in
windows and try again. Still I seriously doubt Linux did anything
negative to your USB drive… search back through these forums and
you’ll find a lot of users using this functionality.
Good luck.
pythonscript wrote:
> I have never had this problem with any of my devices before I got
> openSUSE. It works with Windows perfectly normal, as well as with Mac
> and Windows, also perfectly normal. When I remove it in Linux, I mouse
> over the Computer icon and click the eject icon next to the drive, and I
> do the equivalent of this on Windows. I installed openSUSE 11.1
> yesterday, and that’s when I started having this problem. Anything else
> that could be causing this? The circumstances don’t seem to point to a
> Windows problem, otherwise I would have thought I’d be having this
> problem before. Thanks!
>
>
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