Michael, Thanks for your help I have ntfs-3g installed as well as ntfsprogs. gparted does not recognize the drive fdisk -l pauses after displaying every other file system on the machine, and then returns the prompt without any notice that it has recognized the WD drive. lsusb does recognize the drive as : Bus 008 Device 010: ID 1058:259d Western Digital Technologies, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------- I would check if you have the ntfs support installed. rpm -qa | grep ntfs Should have the ntfs-3g installed, probable don't need ntfsprogs, but I use them. I have used gparted on linux to redo disks on many occassiions dnf install gparted. Had a student that had a large disk that was somehow formated to mac format, so ended up using gparted to make the disk half mac/ half ntfs so she could save files from both systems and use options that Fat32 don't support. Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, since ntfs should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed? On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Subject: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem From: "Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx> To: Fedora Users List <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx g> Date sent: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:15:26 -0500 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Everyone, > > I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had > hoped > to use for archive files for some digital images. > > Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google > searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 > system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried > to > connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount > it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I > plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is > plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution > to > completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the > drive is plugged in a usb port. > > Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives? > > Thanks for you help!!!! > > Greg Ennis > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 118093151.288695 ROSETTA 51279764.747103 | SETI 94372974.067749 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
