External hard drive help

[abosnowman]

Hey everyone, I'm new to the forums so sorry in advance if this is in the wrong place. I'm having a little trouble and I'm hoping someone here could help me out...

I'm running Linux Mint on one of the computers in my home, while the rest are windows vista/xp. I am trying to copy World of Warcraft from a windows machine to the Linux machine with my external hard drive (regular IDE drive in an enclosure), then install it with Wine. The drive is formatted to NTFS but I can't get it to work in Mint. I don't have too much experience with linux so if someone could tell me the easiest way to move WoW to the linux machine I would really appreciate it. I don't have the install discs anymore so that's not an option. Thanks in advance!

[TaZMAniac]

You didn't say if you don't know how to access the hard drive in Linux or if
you are trying to mount and access the drive and getting an error message.

If you are getting an error message when trying to access the drive in Mint you will want to check out this link;
Linux Mint Forums • View topic - Mounting a NTFS fromatted external hard drive question

You also don't mention which version of Mint you are using.
I'll assume you are using a current version. I believe Mint has added NTFS support by default for at least 2 years. Don't quote me on that time frame.
But if you have any version within that time frame it does support NTFS partitions.

The problem is with Windows. It can't read or write to Linux partitions.
And if the drive wasn't properly 'removed' in Windows it makes it hard to mount and read the drive with any other OS.

[electroman6913]

open the main mint menu go up and click on computer see if your hard drive is listed if it is right click on it and select mount. then it should be see on your desktop