HDD does not mount when restarting

[victor9098]

Hi



No. The best place to change it is probably from GParted. Make sure the disk is unmouted, select it, right click and select "Manage flags". Untick the boot flag and close the dialog. Then press the big green tick button at the top. That assumes you have a desktop.

Kind regards

Ok, did what you suggested via Gparted. Restarted the system and it all worked perfectly. The drive mounted for the first time. Then I turned of the computer, started up, drive mounted as normal. Restarted again and the same error returned saying the drive was not ready.

Have just gone back into Gparted, clicked the unmounted drive and in the information section is just says "cannot have a partition outside the disk".

So it worked, but then went back to normal. Going to try again (turn on/off, then restart) just to check.

[victor9098]

Just noticed in Gparted that the 'problem drive' has an unallocated section of 2.49mb, which the other external HDD does not have. Could this be the issue? Would a reformat of the whole drive be what this needs?

[matt_symes]

Hi

"cannot have a partition outside the disk".

That's an odd message. Can you open a terminal and post the results of

sudo sfdisk -V /dev/sdg

Kind regards

[victor9098]

Hi



That's an odd message. Can you open a terminal and post the results of

sudo sfdisk -V /dev/sdg

Kind regards

The output is:

Warning: partition 1 extends past end of disk

[matt_symes]

Hi

Warning: partition 1 extends past end of disk

Yes. That's an issue. I not sure if it's your main issue but that wants to be fixed. It can be fixed using sfdisk but i am no expert in that program.

It's late here so i will let you google about sfdisk if you want to and see if anybody else here has used sfdisk more than i have.

If not i can try to give you a hand tomorrow.

Kind regards

[victor9098]

Hi



Yes. That's an issue. I not sure if it's your main issue but that wants to be fixed. It can be fixed using sfdisk but i am no expert in that program.

It's late here so i will let you google about sfdisk if you want to and see if anybody else here has used sfdisk more than i have.

If not i can try to give you a hand tomorrow.

Kind regards

Thanks a lot for all your help, really appreciate it. Late here too, so might resume with fresh eyes in the morning.

Thanks again!

[blueridgedog]

I recommend deleting the partition and then repartitioning the disk. I can assist if that is the route you elect. I believe it will turn out to be hardware failure though.

[matt_symes]

Hi

I believe it will turn out to be hardware failure though.

This is quite possible. However you want to try to fix it, i would recommend running some SMART tests using smartctl after the partition has been fixed.

As long as the disk is newish it should have smart data.

sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdg

That will take a while to finish.

After it has finished

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sga

This will produce a report that can be posted back here.

But first the partition table needs to be fixed.

Kind regards

[blueridgedog]

A typo:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdg

[victor9098]

Sorry for the late response.

Last night I used gparted to reformat the drive and removed the unallocated space. I then left it to do a full backup of my system before leaving it.

This morning I went through the cycle of turning on then restarting and the problem still is present. At first it was because the wrong UUID values were in Fstab, so I deleted the two drives altogether. Then next startup everything mounted fine, but when I restarted the sdg drive still refuses to automount.

I have installed smartmontools and have it running a test now. It should not finish for about 116mins it said.

After that I will run the following command, but that might be later this evening but will post the results as soon as I can.

Thanks again for your help