On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 09:47:40 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
Several years ago I purchased an external 1 TB USB connected drive for
backups.
The base of the enclosure says it is a Seagate drive.
Partitions:
#1 is ntfs 293 GiB [146 GiB used] labeled "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive"
#2 is extended partition for remainder of drive
#5 is fat32 62.5 GiB [31.5 GiB used] with no label
I successfully mounted partitions 1 and 5. Both are readable and contain
files from unknown Windows machines. On my Windows Desktop hardware
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Recent indicates that it had been used on
that machine back in 2011. There is similar evidence that it had been used
on my Windows Laptop in 2012. Neither machine reports files with "goflex" in
filename {case insensitive search}.
I attempted to label partition 5 with Gparted, but the "Label" menu option
was greyed out.
The "Label" option was available for partition 1. I had no problem creating
partition 6 as fat32 and labeling it.
Any suggestions as to what the problem is?
Is there another option that would allow me to label the partition with no
other effects on that partition?
gparted for labelling a partition is overkill. Use dosfslabel.