Mount your USB Hard Drive on an Acer Aspire One

It’s relatively easy to do.

Make sure your USB HDD drive is not plugged in.  Open terminal and login to root.

Login to root by typing “su -”, then you’ll be asked for the password. This is the password you entered when you first logged into the netbook to set it up.

Then type “yum install ntfs-3g” and reboot. Put your drive back in the USB port and access it going to My Files in the menu.

Now you can use your USB HDD for storage and expansion.

Thanks to Sean from SeanSlater.biz for help with the terminal commands.

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| September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in General |

7 Responses to “Mount your USB Hard Drive on an Acer Aspire One”

  1. Jonny Says:
    September 14th, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Cheers, worked perfectly for me.

  2. Stan Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Sounds easy but our machine came with the password already configured (and not disclosed) so can’t get into Root?

  3. Alex Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Either contact the person you bought it from or start looking for how to reset/crack the password. If it’s linux based you’re going to have a hard time.

  4. Jonathan Says:
    February 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Try sudo yum install ntfs-3g

  5. Stephen Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 2:20 am

    I followed the instructions at the top of this page and they worked perfectly!

    Thank you very much.

  6. Jade Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Awesome – thanks :-) worked like a charm!

  7. h3X Says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    to Stan and others with no knowledge of root password – try sudo su, that should get you logged in as root with your user password. from there you may be able to change the root password by saying passwd.

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