Installing External Hard Drive in uBuntu

The last step was to install an external USB hard disk because my XP partitions were almost full and my Linux partition is only 17GB. It had to be NTFS for compatibility reasons. I already had an enclosure lying around so I bought a Seagate 500GB IDE HDD from NCIX on sale for $120. Just an observation IDE hard drives cost more than SATA now.

For anyone wondering I used the following commands to install it:

• sudo fdisk -l, this will print all the connected drives:

Identify your external hard drive. For me the last entry is my external drive, it showed up as /dev/sdc initially but I took the screenshot after installing it so it had 1 partition, hence /dev/sdc1.

• sudo fdisk /dev/sdc. Use n to create a new partition. Now you’ll have /dev/sdc1

• sudo mkntfs -v -N 3.1 /dev/sdc1. If you are missing mkntfs get it by sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs.

• sudo ntfs-config. Enable support for both external and internal drives.

• Plug out your external drive and plug it back in. It wil be mounted automatically, and show up on your desktop.

After this uBuntu has become my primary OS and I love it !