I have a 1.0 TB external, USB hard drive that I want to re-purpose from win-dose. When I connect it, my file manager shows the file system label, but it is not mounted. If I try to force a mount, no joy.
I've run testdisk and I get a clean scan and viable partition table.
When I try to run gparted it scans forever without finding something satisfying to chew on.
Is there some black magic to working with external, USB-connected drives that is different from the same drive connected internally?
Oh, the existing partition is NTFS and win-dose won't read it either. I suppose the hardware could actually be dead, but then why did testdisk appear to work okay?
At a loss,
~~~ 8d;-/ Dan
can't configure external USB drive any way at all
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SaintDanBert
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can't configure external USB drive any way at all
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viking777
Re: can't configure external USB drive any way at all
If windows won't read it then you need to run chkdsk from windows to see what is wrong with the disk or else use gparted to reformat it to a Linux file system if you intend to use it solely on Linux from now on (of course the latter will wipe out any data it contains).