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Have a 750 gig external HDD. Have format it in Ubuntu 12.10 using FAT32 since I have to switch between windows, linux and osX. Used quick format option when doing this. Have named drive but Ubuntu doesn't give drive letter. Tried loading on windows 7 and drive comes up under manager as unallocated. Any suggestions about how what I did wrong and how to fix this problem? Thanks.

JH

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  • I'm not sure about OSX, but Linux have no trouble accessing NTFS partitions - no reason to use FAT which is kinda not terribly reliable.
    – Sergey
    Dec 29, 2012 at 1:11

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Linux (and thus Ubuntu) does not use drive letters. Look on your desktop or in the /media folder

If that doesn't help, read up on linux "mounting" and USB especially (Ubtunu Mount/USB page is as good a place to start as any)

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  • Hi, the drive mounts no problem on linux systems and Mac OSX, just not on Windows 7.
    – James Hare
    Dec 29, 2012 at 0:20
  • Then this is not an ubuntu question. You should probably assign the drive a drive letter: pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/…
    – dtech
    Dec 29, 2012 at 0:28
  • I would do this if I could but this option doesn't come up under computer management. When I go there the drive is listed as unallocated and there isn't the option to assign a letter, just reformat.
    – James Hare
    Dec 29, 2012 at 0:37
  • make sure you formatted as FAT, give the output of mount
    – dtech
    Dec 29, 2012 at 0:41

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