My book won't show up in my windows computers but will on my ubuntu and xbox 360

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So I use a ubuntu computer at home but when I’m on the road i use windows. It’s a windows XP. The external hdd shows up in my device manager, it says “this device is working properly” but isn’t showing up in my computer. I know drive works because i hook it up to my xbox and listen to music off of it and my ubuntu runs it fine.

Any help?

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Does the drive show in Disk Management and does it have a letter assigned?

Joe

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If your drive is larger than 2TB and any single partition is larger than 2TB, this is going to be your issue.

Generally speaking, Windows XP has a 2TB limit per partition.

If your drive is larger than that, there are a number of solutions, but the easiest one is to split (partition) the drive into multiple partitions which are less than 2TB each

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I switched to a windows 7 computer. It shows up in device manager but not in disc management. So no letter

 ok so i got digging around and noticed that my data is in a non partition area and only 15gb (my xbox data) is partition. o.O no clue how this happenedor what to do

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answered my own questoin, downloaded ubuntu 10.10 run the demo opened the drive (ubuntu doesn’t care if it’s allocated, corrupt, doesn’t have drivers, or waht ever) copyied all my files i wanted to the windows part of the internal hdd. Then i formattted the drive using windows and put all the data back on it. Thanks for your help anyways 

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Great. Hopefully it will help someone else with a similar problem. My confusion was it working with the xbox and linux but not windows. I forgot to consider that the xbox made it’s own partition.

Well done, and you’ll probably prevent someone else from manually inflicted baldness. LOL