[Wolves] Hard Drive formatting

[Mo Awkati]

>Hi Folk

>Santa brought me a combo enclosure which accommodates SATA and IDE drives and connects to my PC via USB.  I have put in it a spare >80 GB SATA drive. My intention is to use the drive to store data on it rather than boot a distro. I have formatted the drive a number of times >to EXT3 and 4 and also FAT 32 and none of them works well. I can write some data to it but it keeps locking when I try to transfer a large >file say something like a file with a few music tracks on it. I tested the drive and its ok.

>Any ideas?

>Mo


Hi again,

I have resolved the issue. When I was formatting the drive I did not notice that I should have set the partition to non as it was defaulted to MBR. Its working fine now.

Cheers

Mo


      
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