Linux recognizes external HDD connected via eSATA but not via USB

hypernetics · 12-05-2012, 04:14 AM

Hi there,

yesterday I connected an external HDD via eSATA to my notebook. I formatted the disk and created an NTFS filesystem on it. Afterwards I copied a bunch of datas to this disk. Everything worked fine.

Today I connected the disk via USB and my system didn't recognized the NTFS-partition, so I couldn't mount the device. A Win7 system declarated the disk as "RAW".

When I connect the disk via eSATA again it is recognized by my Linuxsystem and I can access the datas on it. That's very strange and I guess I haven't understood the technology at all?!

My system is a LinuxMint 14 (64-bit).

Can anybody help me?

explodingzebras · 12-05-2012, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hypernetics

Hi there,

yesterday I connected an external HDD via eSATA to my notebook. I formatted the disk and created an NTFS filesystem on it. Afterwards I copied a bunch of datas to this disk. Everything worked fine.

Today I connected the disk via USB and my system didn't recognized the NTFS-partition, so I couldn't mount the device. A Win7 system declarated the disk as "RAW".

When I connect the disk via eSATA again it is recognized by my Linuxsystem and I can access the datas on it. That's very strange and I guess I haven't understood the technology at all?!

My system is a LinuxMint 14 (64-bit).

Can anybody help me?

It sounds like you created the NTFS partition using Linux, back everything up and then I'd suggest instead creating NTFS file systems with Win 7.

posix04 · 12-07-2012, 08:25 AM

That's incredible! Are you sure the filesystem is NTFS? Please, join the hard disk by USB and type, in a terminal, the following command:

Code:

 
lsusb

What's the answer?