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Western Digital portable hard drive working on Ubuntu?

Asked by David Wingard

Hello,

I have a 1TB Western Digital My Passport Essential portable hard drive and I want to know if it work with Ubuntu 10.04, I am planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10. I use it on Windows 7 Home Premium for right now. I have all my music and videos on this portable hard drive.

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

I use the 500GB version -- it worked out of the box. However I formatted it to ext4 because I knew I did not need to use it on a windows machine.

If you want to store stuff I would recommend two smaller drives rather than one large one, that way you have a backup.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

Oh, in general, if you want to know more about hardware compataibility, there are several databases on the net, such as:

http://linuxhcl.com/

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David Wingard (phineas96) said : 		#3

Ok. Well my hard drive is formatted as a NTFS will it still work as is?

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#4

Yes. Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) and up have read/write enabled.

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David Wingard (phineas96) said : 		#5

Ok Thanks! I am downloading the disk image so I can burn it to install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

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David Wingard (phineas96) said : 		#6

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.