External USBHDD *Suddenly* Not mountable or availabel

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External USBHDD *Suddenly* Not mountable or availabel

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(been a long day, clearly) lol

I'm semi-beginner with Linux; I've been learning as I go with Mint Cinnamon for a couple months, now. I have a USB HDD (1GB) attached to my PC, and all of a sudden, it's not available. It shows here in Computer, but if I try to open it: "Unable to mount location. Can't mount file." Obviously, it doesn't show on desktop when I plug it in. Previously, it has been working flawlessly; I formatted and partitioned it on this PC. However, if I plug it into my laptop (running the same OS), it operates as expected--flawlessly.

As you can see below, it shows up in `lsusb` (Bus 002 Device 003), but not `lsblk` (previously sdb1, I believe).

Help! Let me know what else I can provide, too. Thanks in advance!

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plex@PLEXDW-PC:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0480:0900 Toshiba America Inc MQ04UBF100
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b588 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HP High Definition 1MP Webcam
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

plex@PLEXDW-PC:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2   8:2    0   931G  0 part /
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
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