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?
External Hard Drive Error
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- The Muffin Man
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Re: External Hard Drive Error
Can you examine it with gnome-disks or gparted?
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- stevengarland
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Re: External Hard Drive Error
I know how to use Gparted for formatting partitions. How do you examine an external HDD with Gparted?
Re: External Hard Drive Error
No, but it used to run fine on Linux.
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Re: External Hard Drive Error
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
I reinstalled Linux and now it's reading the external HDD again.The Muffin Man wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:07 pmGParted 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.