My Book Essential 1.5 TB problem

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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I’ve used my HDD under Win 7 previously, now I started using Ubuntu is it possible to access my external HDD without installing windows again. Thanks in advance

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Almost every Linux distro comes with the NTFS-3G driver, I’d thought, allowing you to mount/access NTFS drives.

Obviously you need to replace the /dev entry with the correct drive, but something like this should get you back in business:

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/wdexternal

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Thank you very much