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External Hard Drive Error

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Hello, I have an external hard disk(TOSHIBA USB 3.0 Hard Drive) with 500 GB of space. It runs fine on Windows but it gives the following error on Linux:

Unable to mount TOSHIBA EXT

Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/TOSHIBA EXT:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

My laptop is Lenovo ideapad 110 and I am running the latest version of Linux Mint with all updates installed. My desktop environment is Cinnamon. I recently updated Linux Mint to the newest version, could this be a reason for this error?
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Re: External Hard Drive Error

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Can you examine it with gnome-disks or gparted?
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Re: External Hard Drive Error

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Is it formatted for Linux?
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Re: External Hard Drive Error

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The Muffin Man wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:33 am Can you examine it with gnome-disks or gparted?
I know how to use Gparted for formatting partitions. How do you examine an external HDD with Gparted?
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Re: External Hard Drive Error

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stevengarland wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:56 am Is it formatted for Linux?
No, but it used to run fine on Linux.
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whois1230 wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:17 pm
The Muffin Man wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:33 am Can you examine it with gnome-disks or gparted?
I know how to use Gparted for formatting partitions. How do you examine an external HDD with Gparted?
GParted has a dropdown (aka combobox) that lets you select partitions. One of them will be your external drive.
gnome-disks will likewise show the disks you have connected and you can just select it.
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Re: External Hard Drive Error

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The Muffin Man wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:07 pm
whois1230 wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:17 pm
The Muffin Man wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:33 am Can you examine it with gnome-disks or gparted?
I know how to use Gparted for formatting partitions. How do you examine an external HDD with Gparted?
GParted has a dropdown (aka combobox) that lets you select partitions. One of them will be your external drive.
gnome-disks will likewise show the disks you have connected and you can just select it.
I reinstalled Linux and now it's reading the external HDD again.
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