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    How to reMount an invisible Hard drive

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Kamin_Majere, Oct 12, 2009.

  1. Kamin_Majere

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    Ok so i have a 320GB external hard drive that i've been using with my Linux laptop at work to watch movies and TV shows and read books.

    Well apparently it got unplugged and i wasnt able to unmount it before this happened. Last night i plug it in like normal and Ubuntu refuses to even see the drive.

    Is there anyway to get this drive remounted? All entertainment that i have out here at work is stored in that drive and i would very much like to have access to it again.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Oct 12, 2009
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  2. Gregory

    Gregory disassemble?

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    Can you see the drive in Gparted? (Not that you want to doing anything in Gparted, I just find it easier than fdisk for listing volumes).
     
    Gregory, Oct 12, 2009
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    How is it formatted? If it's NTFS, you have to mount it on a Windows machine and then safely remove it. ntfs3g doesn't play nicely with drives that aren't cleanly unmounted.
     
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  4. Kamin_Majere

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    Thanks i'll give all of that a try.

    Yeah it is NTFS formatted, so i'll try a clean unmounting from Windows and see if that fixes the problem.

    Would formatting it into another format stop that from happening again?
     
    Kamin_Majere, Oct 12, 2009
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    FAT32 should be visible in both windows/linux and shouldn't have that issue (at least, it hasn't happened for me)
     
    Lanaya, Oct 12, 2009
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    last resort is to force mount it in linux, i.e. you CAN do it w/o windows.
     
    theZoid, Oct 13, 2009
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  7. Kamin_Majere

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    Thanks everyone plugging it into a windows machine and then safety removing it worked.


    How can i force mount it (i actually dont know the terminal command for that)
     
    Kamin_Majere, Oct 13, 2009
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    like this:

    sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda8 /media/Others -o force

    assuming your sda number is 8, and it's mounted under /media/Others

    I will do it that way when I know I'm not going to lose any unsaved data; that's what going back to windows is for.
     
    theZoid, Oct 14, 2009
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