Seagate external usb hard drive won't mount

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Post the output of

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sudo fdisk -l

from a terminal with the external drive plugged in.

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First you need to make a directory to mount it in. Plug in the HDD. Open a terminal and run

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sudo mkdir /media/seagate

You can change seagate to whatever you want to name it. This will just be the name of the folder it will be mounted in inside your /media folder. Then mount it in the /media folder with

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sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/seagate

Again, change "seagate" to whatever you chose in step 1. It should be mounted.

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Try

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sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/seagate

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Try mounting it with this

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sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/seagate vfat defaults,users,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

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Try adding this to fstab:

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/dev/sdc1 /media/seagate vfat	noauto,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000  0    0

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Sorry for the late post. I haven't checked my email in a while. You might try using chmod to change the permissions. Right click on the desktop icon when it is mounted, and see who owns it(probably root). If so, open a terminal and try

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sudo chmod -R  a-rwx /dev/sdc1