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Originally Posted by orbiting
Waaait! LOL, remember my first post, it did have a problem, the hard disk kept erasing itself and the stuff I transferred via USB didn't show up. I'm pretty computer illiterate but I *can* tell when a drive is behaving in a weird way - keep poor Banshee out of it 
Somewhere along the way I lost "text-to-speech", but whatever, it works otherwise.
Thanks guys =) |
I do not think that: "the hard disk kept erasing itself" is correct.
I think instead it was a problem with the display and access of the hard disk contents which is a common result of the Linux VFS system running a VFAT storage medium.
The key to my conclusion is that the stuff you transferred via USB "didn't show up".
If you hadn't formatted the drive in the process of searching for the cause, we could learn what was happening from the "hidden" sectors of the VFAT partition.
But that information was wiped out by the re-format, so all any of us can do is speculate at this point.
It is just good to hear that it is working now.
Jumping into a Linux VFS (virtual file system) problem is not the recommended way to start learning Linux.