I've noticed that my usb-SATA cables sometimes need to be checked
(pulled apart and reconnected). It looks like
fdisk -l
isn't showing the device? Realize this may be a long shot.
JN
On 13-02-27 08:21 AM, ed stuckems wrote:
Hello folks:
I need to resize an ntfs partition to make room for a linux distro.
Since I've never resized an ntfs partition before, I dug up a spare
drive I had laying around with the intent to format it to include an
ntfs partition that I can later resize. In fact, the plan was to
format the drive to have a similar layout to the drive that I
eventually want to target. Alas, in trying to create the layout on
the second drive I seem to have F@&%ed it up to the point that it's no
longer recognized by the OS. Is there anyone that can suggest a
course of action to revive the drive?
My test drive is a 1T drive that's connected to the computer via usb
and I'm trying to format the drive so that it'll boot in a (u)efi
machine. The last thing I did with the drive was to try and create
one large partition formatted with a fat32 filesystem. When I last
used the machine and drive, I was still able to mount, umount, and
access the drive with parted but when I turned off the machine and
rebooted, the device wouldn't attach to a device file in /dev thus
preventing me from either mounting the drive or using parted/fdisk to
repartition it. If I were to ask a specific question it would be "How
to I coerce linux into connecting the drive to a device (in /dev) so
that I can run something like fdisk or parted on the device be able to
create a filesystem with mkfs"?
thanks,
eds
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