How to format an external hard drive?

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I have run NTFS systems before without any issue, the NTFS drivers can do RW 
without problem.
How old is your Mandriva?
Get Kubuntu...    :)
Enrique A. Troconis 

PS: The instructions given to you that start "fdisl -l" are correct, so I'm 
omitting them. 

 


Josef Lowder writes: 

> I received a small 38-Gig external harddrive as a gift
> and it is apparently formatted with an ntfs file system. 
> 
> It mounts automatically when I plug it in to my Mandriva
> system USB port, and I can read the files that are there,
> but I cannot write to it as it gives a message "read only
> file system." 
> 
> So, what would be the best way to format it as a fat 32
> so I can plug it in and use it on either my Linux system
> or on my xp laptop? 
> 
> While I have not used it for anything, below are some of the
> files that I found on this HD: 
> 
> Contents of external HD: 
> 
> /dev/sda1              38G  212M   38G   1% /mnt/New_Volume
> /dev/sda1              38G  212M   38G   1% /mnt/New_Volume 
> 
> # cd /mnt/New_Volume
> # ls -ltr
> dr-x------  1 root root 0 Feb 23  2006 System Volume Information/
> # cd System*
> # ls -ltr
> dr-x------  1 root root 0 Sep 21 16:19 RECYCLER/
> -r--------  2 root root 0 Feb 23  2006 MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase
> dr-x------  1 root root 0 Sep 21 16:18
> _restore{D5341F9C-33F7-43CF-8BD2-1AE937C9BA1B}/
> dr-x------  1 root root 0 Sep 21 16:18 RP471/
> -r--------  1 root root 1390 Sep 21 16:19 change.log
> # cat change.log
> ïÍ«ì\Device\HarddiskVolume9\System Volume
>  Information\_restore{D5341F9C-33F7-43CF-8BD2-1AE937C9BA1B}
> \RP471\change.logdïÍ«ÿÿÿÿà \Converted2d`ïÍ«ÿÿÿÿà\RECYCLER`¼ïÍ«ÿÿÿÿàx\
> RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006¼ÔïÍ« ÿÿÿÿà\
> RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006\
> desktop.iniÔ¼ïÍ«àx\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006¼`ïÍ«à\
> RECYCLER`þïÍ«ÿÿÿÿà
> \Converted2\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006\
> De1▒    CONVER~1þ
> #
> # cd RECYCLER
> # ls -ltr
> dr-x------  1 root root 0 Sep 21 16:19
> S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006/ 
> 
> dr-x------  1 root root 12288 Sep 21 16:19 De1/
> -r--------  1 root root    65 Sep 21 16:19 desktop.ini
> -r--------  1 root root   820 Sep 21 16:19 INFO2 
> 
> # cat INFO2
> E:\Converted2Ðt'@É@▒
> E:\Converted2[root at localhost S-1-5-21-947519380-1418259369-3847320399-1006]
> #
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