External HD and Windows

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/21/13 12:07, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I seem to recall that there is a problem with the formatting of some (all?) external HDs (eSATA and/or USB) that are set up for Windows in such a way as to make them useless for Linux. 
>
> Could someone refresh me? Thanks.

Could you be thinking along the lines of something like this?

Windows makes use of the FAT, NTFS, exFAT and ReFS file systems (the latter is only supported and usable in Windows Server 2012.

>From a wiki.....

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