Quote Originally Posted by Laurent
Yesterday my partner managed to borrow a portable USB Hardrive from her work. now the thing is the USB hd works fine with a Mac (my other computer) but i have no way of knowing if it works on a PC or Linux (got a feeling it's not gonna work on a PC).

So essentially what i would like to know is:
- Are there any ways to get KNOPPIX to recognise this USB HD
Most of the time Knoppix will recognize an external hard drive and put partition icons on the desktop when booting, assuming that the drive is connected to the computer at boot time. But that is with a USB drive partitioned for the PC.

Do you know what type of partitions are on this external drive? Do you know if it's even partitioned at all? Does it have useful (perhaps important) data on it, or are you free to completely repartition and format the drive as you wish? I don't know much about the many MAC OSs, but this information may help someone who does help you.