Internal SSD showing as removable drive

[BorderlineNoob]

fast background.. finally dumped windows (yeah)

In the process of installing side by side with windows one of my two internal SSDs failed.. so it's swapped and Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon is installed and running fine on the new one.

The older one.. 2TB, is showing up as a removable drive both when I click "my computer" and the removable drive thingee on the taskbar.
That drive isn't showing in Gparted at all.

Might someone have any ideas on how to let Linux know it's actually an internal drive?

[all41]

What are your plans for the 2TB usage-wise? Linux only? Just general file storage and backups, etc?
You can mount this drive at system start but more info is needed.

The older one.. 2TB, is showing up as a removable drive both when I click "my computer" and the removable drive thingee on the taskbar.
That drive isn't showing in Gparted at all.

That's strange. Can you see it using 'Disks' utility?

If you still don't see the drive open a terminal and enter:

Code: Select all

lsblk

Please copy/paste those results here.
Cheers

[BorderlineNoob]

The 2 TB drive .. storage mostly.
The plan is to not go back to windows unless I manage to run windows 7 in a virtual machine.
Yes, the drive shows up in the Disks utility.

:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 65.2M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
loop1 7:1 0 99.4M 1 loop /snap/core/11993
loop2 7:2 0 99.5M 1 loop /snap/core/11798
loop3 7:3 0 141.9M 1 loop /snap/icq-im/69
loop4 7:4 0 4K 1 loop /snap/bare/5
sda 8:0 0 477G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 477G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1.8T 0 part /media/opal/New Volume
└─sdb3 8:19 0 499M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sr1 11:1 1 1024M 0 rom

[all41]

Are you sure this can't be seen in gparted? You have to select the displayed drive using
the /dev/ button near the upper right

If there is nothing on the 2tb worth keeping my strategy would be to reformat the drive EXT4, and make two partitions,
a large one with a label 'storage' and a smaller one with a label 'backup' say 100gb (5%).
You can direct your downloads to the storage partition and your timeshift snapshots and other
backups to the backup partition.

[RIH]

Are you sure this can't be seen in gparted? You have to select the displayed drive using
the /dev/ button near the upper right

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[all41]

Are you sure this can't be seen in gparted? You have to select the displayed drive using
the /dev/ button near the upper right

GP.png

Thanks @RIH

[BorderlineNoob]

*smackes head* Top right.. yup.. it's there
Still not sure why it isn't counted as an internal drive.
And this is why I'm still a noob.

A bit over 800 GB is filled on it.
/dev/sdb1 MS reserved partition - 128 MB
/dev/sdb2 basit data partition ntfs 1.82 TB 809 GB used 1.03 TB unused
/dev/sdb3 Basic data partition ntfs backup 499 mb 26.50 MB used
unallocated 1.09 MB

I can get to the data on the drive.. just wondered if there was a command to change the category from removable to internal.

[Michael_Hathaway]

/dev/sdb2 basit data partition ntfs 1.82 TB 809 GB used 1.03 TB unused

It would be better to back up data on the drive and reformat to ext4 instead of ntfs.

[all41]

The partition(s) on the drive get mounted--not the drive itself, but the drive is recognized as hardware.
To mount a partition is to add it's directory tree so your file manager knows it's contents.
The point where the tree is read by your filesystem is the mount point.
Since the drive has no defined mount point it auto mounts to /media/opa/New Volume.
Do yourself a favour--use gparted to give this partition a good name such as Media, or storage, or something
easily discernable.
I will help you make the mount--best to do it manually

[BorderlineNoob]

Today I have somewhere near 16 irons in the fire.. I'm not ignoring help.
I'll start backing up my files but will probably be afk for the next .. egad.. 6 hours