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Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - gold_finger - 03-05-2014
Quote:If you want to leave it hooked up on startup, you'll have to either use GPartEd to 'turn off' that boot flag, or turn it off as a boot selection in your BIOS. The former option is preferable because THAT will keep it from trying to boot into a Windows install that doesn't exist...
Just saw this posted by N4RPS after I made my post.
Didn't cross my mind to just use GParted like that. If you can, do that instead of using my solution -- much safer.
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - mandoran - 03-05-2014
Thanks guys - yes
- the GParted suggestion did sound infinitely safer, you did a very thorough job of outlining the dangers of the alternative! I'll report back when I get a chance to test it out.
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - N4RPS - 03-06-2014
Hello!
I use GPartEd as in integral part of ANY dual-boot install I do - for example, to shrink a Windows partition to fit a new Linux partition (and swap) on the same drive. On the next time it boots into Windows, it automatically runs a CHKDSK to reconcile the changed Windows partition.
Depending on how partitions are laid out on a particular drive, I SUPPOSE this has the potential to cause problems, but, knock wood, I've never had any myself. Of course, I use Redo Backup to back up what's there beforehand, just in case...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - mandoran - 03-06-2014
But this isn't a dual boot, it's just an external data disk - should be no danger making it non-bootable?
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - N4RPS - 03-06-2014
Hello!
None at all. All that making your external HD non-bootable will do is solve your problem. I was only further elaborating just how useful GPartEd can be as part of the overall installation process...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - mandoran - 03-09-2014
Well, interesting developments. Thanks N4RPS for the GParted suggestion - it did indeed solve my restart problem!
Now something else has turned up - if I put the system to sleep, when it wakes, all the external drive's files are unseen in Krusader - it gives the space used correctly but cannot show anything else. The icon for the drive has appeared on the desktop - as if it were newly plugged in and not registered as hard disk in fstab - and it claims it cannot touch the drive as it is already mounted. Next time I must test to see if other file managers do the same.
So sleep-wake seems to re-attach the drive in some sense, and then nothing can see it as it is mounted and unmounted at the same time, so to speak. Does this sound like a known problem? I know suspend is very dodgy with Ubuntu, I gave up on it before I gave up on Ubuntu.
Re: Minor issues with an external hard drive - mandoran - 05-17-2014
Ah, I've been tinkering and came in to report a problem, but I see that I already have. The otherwise well behaving external data disk is rendered comatose by putting the machine to sleep.
Upon waking the drive is mounted, its address is the same as before system sleep, and its used space is given, but no files are shown or findable. Need to restart to use the drive.
Is this a known problem?