HDD not visible on my PC

[majkelos]

Hi folks,

I have my GoFlex Home with arch installed on it working pretty sweet, i have samba installed so the files sharing with my pc over LAN is working alright.
But when i'm trying to unplug my drive from goflex home base and connect to normal sata-usb device, so i can copy files from my laptop much faster via usb drive is not recognised.
Not sure how to bite this one any ideas?

Regards

[xenoxaos]

The drive is probably formatted in a filesystem that Windows doesn't recognize. You can use a live-cd like Ubuntu to mount the drive from Linux.

[moonman]

You can install filesystem driver for windows http://www.ext2fsd.com/ Don't know if it works well with ext4, but I've used it before with ext3.

If it's usb 2.0 adapter and you are on a gigabit LAN, you probably won't even see any increase in speed, maybe even decrease as I've seen faster speeds from GoFlex to PC over gigabit link by about 5 mByte/s. USB 2.0 is maxed out at about 30mByte/s so SATA -> samba ->gigabit link may be faster depending how busy your device is.

[majkelos]

Cheers for the asnwers,
I have tried the Ext2Fsd-0.51 actually, it worked out - as the drive was visible.
The only thing is that when i tried to copydelete anything on thr drive i had the permission error. So then i did chmod 777 -R on my mounted drive under arch linux but it didn't help.

Any ideas how to fix the permission issue?
Thenk you.

[moonman]

I think you are fine reading with it, but it may cause corruption when writing. There may be an option in the mount manager to enable writing to ext4 but be warned AFAIK it doesn't fully support writing to ext4. As an option get VirtualBox, install [k,l,x]ubuntu, create a shared folder with the host and use it to read/write to your hdd.

[majkelos]

Ok, i think the virtualbox will be the way to go, otherwise i would need to re-format this partition to ntfs under linux and it would be compatible both ways i assume

[moonman]

ntfs will work but will be terribly slow and will eat up 100% cpu