[SOLVED] External USB Hard Drive won't mount in Mint 4.0

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MagnusB
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Re: External USB Hard Drive won't mount in Mint 4.0

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Have you tried pmount? Some external disks needs to manually be mounted...
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Re: External USB Hard Drive won't mount in Mint 4.0

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It may help if you first disconnect the drive from XP using "Safely Remove Hardware" before connecting to Linux. This cured the problem when it happened to me. :)
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