NTFS partition not showing on chromebook, any advice?

[Brodel]

Hi,

I lent my friend an external hard drive that I have partitioned into one drive of FAT32 and one of NTFS. The files are on the NTFS partition, but when plugged into her chromebook only the FAT32 partition shows up. I had a quick look online and as far as I can tell the chromebook should be able to read NTFS partitions. Does anyone know if it's possible to get the NTFS partition to work? The drive is a Seagate Freagent Go.

[HawkMan]

Just convert the partition to exFat. it's far more useful on an external drive, well usefull may not be quite the right word but... it'll work in most places anyway. 

[Brodel]

Thanks, I'll look into doing that in the future. Is there nothing I can do to make the drive readable on a chromebook as it currently is then?

[Kami-]

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183093?hl=en-GB

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File systems

You can access files on external devices connected to your Chromebook if they use the following types of filesystems:

• Ext2
• Ext3
• Ext4
• FAT (FAT16, FAT32, exFAT)
• HFS+ (read-only on journaled HFS+)
• ISO9660 (read-only)
• MTP
• NTFS
• UDF (read-only)

Was added in 2011 ( http://www.geek.com/chips/chrome-os-gets-windows-friendly-with-ntfs-support-1439971/ )

[Brodel]

I realise that it says it supports them but it isn't showing up on her chomebook. Only the FAT32 partition is, both show fine on my PC. She got the chromebook as a freebie from google about a year ago, so if support was added in 2011 I can't see why it doesn't show up.

[HawkMan]

I'm not sure about the exact change to the latest NTFS versions since then. But NTFS is a file system that always changes to a larger or lesser degree with every windows release. Sometimes it break third party backwards compatibility. So just saying "supports NTFS" doesn't always say enough. 

[+BudMan MVC]

What is the size of the disk, are you using mbr or gpt?  Does the chrome see say a usb or sd that you format just plain ntfs?

What does the Partitioner show for the disk in chromeos?