Making my usb drive mount

[bobm]

When I installed Daryna it instantly recognised my removable usb hard drive. Now for some reason it doesn't. I get nothing appearing on the desktop at all. Is there anything I can do to force it to mount?

[RobHK]

When I installed Daryna it instantly recognised my removable usb hard drive. Now for some reason it doesn't. I get nothing appearing on the desktop at all. Is there anything I can do to force it to mount?

If you open "Computer" you should see all your drives. Those which are not yet mounted will be white and bulkier in appearance. Those already mounted have a flatter darker appearance. If the drive you want is there but not mounted just double click it. (You may have to enter your password)

[bobm]

I actually see nothing at all. It doesn't seem to realise there's a drive attached at all.

[RobHK]

I actually see nothing at all. It doesn't seem to realise there's a drive attached at all.

Sorry, Bob. I'm fairly new too. Hope someone else can help.

[MagnusB]

It knows it is there, it just don't mount it.
You can either use pmount or edit /etc/fstab to mount it. To use pmount, you first need to know the name of the disk:

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fdisk -l

This should return something like /dev/sdxx or similar, then just use pmount:

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pmount /dev/sdxx usb

Then it will be mounted at /media/usb. You might have to make the folder first though:

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sudo mkdir /media/usb

[bobm]

it doesn't do anything
I get the message "command not found" when I type "fdisk -l" into terminal ...

[MagnusB]

Have you activated the root account? If so, try

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sudo fdisk -l

If that fails as well, use

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whereis fdisk

I that doesn't return anything, it means you have to install it, if it does return something try using the full path (something like /sbin/fdisk).

[bobm]

I get this message:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd061d061

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14216 114189988+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14217 14593 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 14217 14593 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

I suspect that is my internal hard drive.
I wonder if there's a problem with the connection on the usb drive?

[MagnusB]

Is it connected and turned on?

[atlef]

Try this : sudo hald --daemon=no

This worked for me. Not sure how to make it permanent though.

atlef.

[bobm]

hi Magnus - yes it is on and plugged in.
It was working fine. Then I got an error message saying it had been incorrectly been unmounted or something similar. It said about it being ntfs. So I plugged it into a Windows laptop to try and turn it off that way (this had happened before when I was running ubuntu). But windows didn't recognise it either - but saw it was there when I tried the disk management utility hidden away in the control panel. But that wouldn't let me assign it a drive letter either. When I next tried it in Mint I saw nothing. hence the confusion.

Tomorrow I'll borrow a laptop from work that recognised the disk before and see what happens then.

I've had problems with not being able to find another usb disk in Mint. I just don't know what to do. Nothing that's been suggested so far seems to make any difference.
Bob

[MagnusB]

The file system might be messed up, try using GParted to run fsck (check).

[bobm]

thanks Magnus. I'll try that. I'm away for the weekend so I'll let you know what happens next week.