Ubuntu Not Recognizing Internal Hard Drive

**Bashing-om** · April 10th, 2015

robert171; Yikes ;

well;

I haven't done anything to it, I haven't ever formatted it, I just installed Ubuntu on an SSD and the hard drive wouldn't show up.

If there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing - we need to put a file system on that drive so it is seen.

What file system do you want ?
If only ubuntu is to be installed to that box, ext4 is a good choice
For sharing the drive between ubuntu and Windows, NTFS is a good choice.
bk
one can have multiple partitions in various file systems on a single hard drive.
While GParted is versatile and will handle the job ->
Windows' tools for Windows systems
ubuntu tools for ubuntu systems .
-----------------set up partitions and format them in the file system of choice.

betcha then

we can see something

**user_of_gnomes** · April 11th, 2015

You should probably NOT follow bashin-om's advice unless you're looking to lose all that data I can see in the screenshot ...

When you type "disks" and click on the 1TB partition, can you show me what the partition lay-out looks like?

**robert171** · April 12th, 2015

Is this what you're looking for? http://gyazo.com/ceb21a1b72f0d06e232fe33b05ce1206

When I look for disks in Ubuntu the hard drive doesn't even show up (Unless it's this selected thing): http://gyazo.com/33d638cb40b8e7d6cff794c6183a1971

If you are confused by the 1TB Seagate drive in the terminal text that was an external hard drive I had accidently plugged in.

**user_of_gnomes** · April 12th, 2015

It's disk 1 under Windows that we're talking about, right? Is it a USB-drive?

And no, it doesn't even show up indeed. What is selected in Disks is most likely your card reader.

**robert171** · April 13th, 2015

Yes, disk 1 is the one that's not working in Ubuntu. It is an internal hard drive. The Seagate one that's in the terminal text is an external USB drive that's working fine.