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ziegen

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From: TEXAS

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 2

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External USB drive wont mount but USB Flash Drive Wll?

I have an external usb hard drive formatted to NTFS. When I plug it in it shows up in my file manager as New Volume.
When I click on it I get an error message that says

"Cannot get volume fstype alternative"

I have made changes to PolicyKit and it didnt fix it.

I also have a Corsair Flash Drive that has no problem mounting and I can access it without errors.

I dont have a clue how to fix it since one works and the other doesnt.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Last edited by ziegen (2009-06-07 02:22:15)

darkenergy

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 10

Re: External USB drive wont mount but USB Flash Drive Wll?

Have you got ntfs-3g installed?