external HDD partiotion owner root.

Well hello

There once was a external usb HDD. When partitioning it, the owner became Root...
So as far as i could see. I cannot do anything with it!
Just seems to be a 100 gig emtpy space (actually there is a lost&found map, which i cannot enter)

I tried deleting --> creating it again, still the same!

Tyvm for your time and help!

Hi, any chance of uploading a GParted screenshot?

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v385833212XzmANbj

TYVM but like 58 min after post, i just formated the new partition from ext4 to NTFS.
Which took the root owner and turned it to (me)

So yay:)

NTFS can be seen by Zorin but you can't install it to that - without a clearly written/expanded explanation of your setup I am at a loss - but so long as you are happy, that is what counts!

only root has permission to be able to change the partition table and format drives, if you do either from within linux it will be owned by root. If you want to own it, you can do one of a few things.

1) take over the drive.

Code:

sudo chown YOUR_USER /location/to/folder

2) Create a folder you have access to.

Code:

sudo mkdir /location/to/mounted/location/newfoldername
sudo chown YOUR_USER /location/to/mounted/location/newfoldername

Hope this helps!