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    Portable Harddrive Help

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by Ladon, Dec 4, 2008.

  1. Ladon

    Ladon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I plugged in my 2.5 inch USB harddrive last night before turning my laptop on.
    The computer took along time to boot up, then neither of the two partitions mounted.
    I also tried it in another computer with no luck!

    My USB ports are working as other devices are functioning in them.

    Thanks in advance for any help you might have.


    Ladon
     
    Ladon, Dec 4, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    It could be that the external drive is dead.
     
    atbnet, Dec 5, 2008
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  3. ivar

    ivar Notebook Deity

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    Those symptoms were cured by me for my girlfriend using windows just by
    pluging these "dead" external drives to my linux notebook. He could see it first, and then, mysteriously, there were seen also by windows.


    I don't have clear explanation of this. Just no panic! Try to boot linux live CD like kanotix, knoppix, linux mint, puppy linux or other which is able to mount ntfs partitions from out the box.
     
    ivar, Dec 6, 2008
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