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  • NO idea what your problem, but I find it is usually easier to setup the NTFS volume under Windows, leave free space. Then partition the free space within your alternate operating systems.
    – Zoredache
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 0:54
  • Just for our edificiation, it might be useful if you posted the output of sfdisk -l /dev/sdN where /dev/sdN is the actual device name for your portable drive.
    – Zoredache
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 0:56
  • I just did it..
    – PDRX
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 1:28
  • If you did format one of those partitions as NTFS, then did it wrong. It seems you may have set the wrong filesystem type on the partition. What do you see if you run blkid /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2? If you have any data on the drive you probably should migrate it off. Delete the parition meant for NTFS, and just create the NTFS volume under Windows.
    – Zoredache
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 7:06
  • I added the outputs of blkid /dev/sdb1 and blkid /dev/sdb2. you can see the ntfs
    – PDRX
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 10:12