I have an external 250 gb Seagate HDD and I've never been able to get Ubuntu to even acknowledge its existence. Please help me as it has all of my files and info on it. If it helps, it's formatted as fat32 I think.
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I have an external 250 gb Seagate HDD and I've never been able to get Ubuntu to even acknowledge its existence. Please help me as it has all of my files and info on it. If it helps, it's formatted as fat32 I think.
Arianator
With it plugged in type
Code:lsusbThen unplug and plug it back in again and typeCode:sudo fdisk -l
Post all output here.Code:dmesg | tail
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[ 3296.833938] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3296.833946] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 3296.833949] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3296.835247] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[ 3296.836117] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3296.836123] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 3296.836127] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3296.836137] sdb: sdb1
[ 3296.856475] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3296.856532] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Arianator
what do the other 2 commands output?
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Entirety:
smokey@Dimension-desktop:~$ lsub
bash: lsub: command not found
smokey@Dimension-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for smokey:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5c4a5c4a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38349 308038311 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38350 38913 4530330 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38350 38913 4530298+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeef844d8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30401 244196001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
smokey@Dimension-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 3296.833938] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3296.833946] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 3296.833949] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3296.835247] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[ 3296.836117] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3296.836123] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 3296.836127] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3296.836137] sdb: sdb1
[ 3296.856475] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3296.856532] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
smokey@Dimension-desktop:~$
Arianator
There it isOriginally Posted by masontgreen
Code:sudo mkdir /media/driveAll your files will now be in /media/driveCode:sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/drive
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mount: special device /dev/sdbl does not exist
It doesn't make sense... when I hook it up to my other pc running Open Solaris, it recognizes it immediately. With Ubuntu, it says it doesn't exist...?
Arianator
That`s a number one not a little L
sdb1
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Re: Won't recognize my external hard drive
Make sure you are using a one '1' and not an el 'l' at the end:
Should be:
/dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdbl (which it looks like from your post)
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Sorry. Noob mistake with the courrier font. Got it all worked out now. Thank you so much. You are something special to me.
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