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Hi all, |
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I just wanted to post this for the archives because I never found a solution |
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from searching the internet (plenty of "me too"'s, though). Perhaps this |
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information will help somebody out there. |
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I was having trouble with an NTFS formatted external HDD (USB 2.0, with an MBR). |
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I was the primary user, and accessed it using ntfs3g. It used to work |
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flawlessly under Windows, but stopped working at some point. |
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Well, it turned out that *something* had set the partition type to 83 (Linux). |
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Switching it back to type 7 (HPFS/NTFS/EXFAT) got it to work correctly under |
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Windows again (without breaking Linux, of course)! This also alleviated my |
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growing concerns with ntfs3g. |
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I don't know for sure what the culprit was. I vaguely remember having the |
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drive split 50/50 between NTFS and ext4 at some point, but got rid of ext4 |
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again because ntfs3g seemed to behave well enough (or maybe for some other more |
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concrete reason). Maybe GParted screwed up when writing the partition table and |
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kept the 83 type from the ext4 partition? *shrug* |
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Greetings |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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