. . . no that doesnt work-its still listed as a usb device but Nautilus wont recognise it.
. . . no that doesnt work-its still listed as a usb device but Nautilus wont recognise it.
HP EliteBook 745 G2 AMD A10 Pro-7350B/Radon R6 Graphics/15Gb RAM - Desktop Conversion
After trying various other things and not finding out why Nautilus didnt recognise it, but it was showing up after typing "lsusb" in a terminal, I went back into disk utility, which thankfully still recognised it, so attempted to reformat it again and . . success ! Formatting worked and now it auto mounts and Nautilus recognises it again !
HP EliteBook 745 G2 AMD A10 Pro-7350B/Radon R6 Graphics/15Gb RAM - Desktop Conversion
A number of USB disk drives require additional power. Usually in the form of a two headed USB cable. I had the same problem and found that I had to use my two headed USB cable to get it to format and perform other tasks. I can plug it into my main USB port without a need of a cable, but when I plug it into the USB port that has my card readers in it, requires additional power.
One other issue I have had is the formatting for FAT32. Somehow Ubuntu does not format the USB drive correctly. I had to let "create startup disk" create it then delete the files in it. There is a utility that will correctly format/reformat a USB hard disk but I don't have the references off hand.
As for the type of format - FAT32 is the most universal. NTFS may not be recognized on a number of machine.
If the drive is going to be exclusive to Linux, you could go with one of the more fault tolerant file systems.
Just though I'd share my experiences with this.
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