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formatting a hard drive in ntfs using ubuntu 10

Asked by Michael Taylor

I have an external hard drive that I formatted as FAT on my Ubuntu Laptop. My Windows 7 PC doesn't recognise it or at least it doesn't appear in my computer as a hard drive.

Can I format it as NTFS?

If so how?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Yes install and use gparted package to manage partition and to format the drive

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You'll also need ntfs-tools installing too, gparted can't do NTFS without this.

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Michael Taylor (michael-f-taylor) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.