Formatting usb drive to ntfs
 

I have new external usb drive which i'm trying to format to NTFS so I can also use in in windows. I've set it up using fdisk

Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x604a2a7d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS

and tried formatting using

mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sdd1

however I get the follinwg error

Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 100% - Done.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
Error writing to /dev/sdd1: Input/output error.
Error writing non-resident attribute value.
add_attr_sd failed: Input/output error
Couldn't create root directory: Input/output error

Hi DebianUser, Welcome to LQ. Have you tried mkntfs as well?

Good luck. ;-)

hi thanks

I've also tried mkfs.ntfs after installing ntfsprogs

Why not use windows to format it?

Might have gparted in linux already. http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-ref...rdy/2008/09/29

Can I assume you are root?

Try ext3 maybe just to see. # mkfs.ext3

I've now formatted it windows and now having problems mounting it, first I tried

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdd1 /mnt/windows/
cp test.tar.gz /mnt/windows/
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/windows/test.tar.gz': Read-only file system

unmounted

mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/windows/
cp test.tar.gz /mnt/windows/
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/winddows/test.tar.gz': Read-only file system

unmounted

apt-get install ntfs-3g

mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/sdd1 /mnt/windows/

$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 2).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdd1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for the details.

fsck /dev/sdd1
fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sdd1

I have ntfs modules installed

ls /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/fs/ | grep ntfs
ntfs

Try ext3