@ Ralphael,
“but I do want to be able to pull off the USB drive to use as a normal PC drive once in awhile.”
Yes, you can, but don’t write to it, at least that was my experience. Copy to your PC yes and anywhere else, and copy back to your WDMC is fine.
I have the feeling that Safepoint writes in specific format over the WDMC to the USB drive and if your write with a PC to it as well, it mashes this up. This is the same with a ROUTER USB with certain type of harddisk, it is compatible, but not for reading and writing. Don’t forget you write with Linux to the USB drive and Windows writes different to a USB drive and my experience has learned, they are still not 100% compatible like that. Perhaps if you format the drive to EXT2, EXT3 or EXT4 it might do it right and use it with a converting program on a Windows box.
Converting EXT to read and write, look here: http://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/
and here
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/
I know that works, but have not tried on the WDMC as such, but should be working. But still I prefer not to write on the USB external drive between two Operating Systems. Perhaps this should be argued between Linus Torvalds and Billy Gates.
Organisations always have fought for the majority to their side, but many organisations are at loggerheads for donkey years. Just look at Google and Apple. And who is suffering in it ? The customer.
