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External Hard Drive Won't Mount But Is Detected
Yesterday I bought an external drive and after reformatting it to ext4, Ubuntu could no longer "see" it. I asked for help, and eventually came to the conclusion that the drive was somewhat defective. ...
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Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Need help to read files off of an external hard drive.
Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/justin/Iomega HDD:
Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o ...
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USB External Hard drive unplugged but still shows up!
I am running on Ubuntu 12.04. I have physically unplugged an external hard drive from my laptop, but for some reason it is still shown as mounted in Nautilus. When trying to get rid of it by ...
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Can Ubuntu access files within an old operating system on an External Hard Drive?
My laptop is dying (motherboard issue) and I'm due to receive my new laptop tomorrow. I'm considering converting the current hard drive (SATA, 350GB) into an external hard drive using a SATA-to-USB ...
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How to solve the mounting external error?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10. I have got some problem while trying to to mount my external hard drive.
I have got this message
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/media/monghsei' failed: Operation not ...
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automatic mount any external drive under /media with read/write access to everyone
Here is my issue:
My computer has 4 USB ports and is running Ubuntu 12.10. I receive different USBs every day, plug to my computer, read/write data to them, and then send them away.
What I want is ...
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mount two external HFS+ drives simultaneously
This is more of an oddity than a problem for me. I am using 12.0.4 LTS and have hfsprogs installed. (I don't have any reputation so I can't create a tag for hfsprogs, and that it doesn't already exist ...
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How can I change the mount point of an external hard drive
My external HDD currently automatically mounts at a certain name, let's say /media/500GB hard drive. I wish to make it mount at a different location, for example /media/500GB_HDD.
I have looked ...
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xfce / thunar: mount a remote (ssh) usb disk?
My home server has an external USB drive connected. I prefer to keep it unmounted so I don't have to log in if I want to unplug it (for backup rotation).
But I'd also like to be able to browse it in ...
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Issues mounting WD 320 External in 12.10
So, I'm a brand new user to this OS. I'm trying to access my external Western Digital MyBook 320gb USB HD, but the automount feature isn't working. I've read and attempted several suggestions from ...
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No other users can access external hdd since upgrade to 12.10
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 no other user can access the external hdd. This is awkward as its a family pc and we use the hdd to store music and save backups across the several accounts.
The ...
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Mount isnt mounting until x login?
I am using ubuntu 12.04 and running it via vmware (probably wont make a difference, no vmtools applied yet). I logged in via ssh and looked at my external HD, the folder was blank. After logging into ...
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Mount external HD ubuntu 12.10
Although it's an abundantly treated matter, I'm unable to find an answer valid for my needs. I had a 12.04 installation of ubuntu and I decided to install the 12.10.
I copied (using GParted) the ...
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How do I mount a hibernated NTFS partition?
I have a Windows HDD attached to an external docking bay on my Ubuntu System, but the HDD brings up an error message:
Mounting exited with exit code 14:windows is hibernated, refused to
mount. ...
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Unable to mount external hard drive [closed]
Basically I my 12.10 update crashed halfway through, so I've had to start again and put all my data onto an external HDD. It was all going fine until this came up :
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at ...
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Damaged external NTFS hard disk
A few days ago, I used my external hard disk (a 2TB Seagate) in order to transfer some files on Windows Vista. During that, I noticed some malfunctions on my system (it was running too slow, Windows ...
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Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount
Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount ...
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eSata not detected at reboot
I have this external hard drive, MyBook, connected by eSata to my Ubuntu server (12.04). When I plug the hard drive after bootup, I'm able to mount via /dev/sdc1. It works all right, without any ...
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Mount exited with exit code 13
I have a 1TB external hard drive that I recently formatted to NTFS. It was mounting on my Ubuntu 11.10 fine until just now. I didn't make any changes to affect my OS or my exhdd.
The error that I get ...
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Can't mount USB HDD in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
When I try to mount my ADATA USB HDD in my machine I get the following :
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to ...
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How to mount an external HDD?
I have Ubuntu Linux 12.04 version the latest right now.I want to mount an external HDD NTFS 1TB.I have followed many guides but still no success.The error I'm getting is this:
Failed to read last ...
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Can't mount external hard drive
i have a problem accessing the data on my external hard drive. I recently did a fresh install but mistakenly left my external hard drive plugged in.
When I tried to access the data on the external ...
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Why is my external USB hard drive sometimes completely inaccessible?
I have an external USB hard drive, consisting of an 1 TB SATA drive in a Rosewill RX35-AT-SU SLV Aluminum 3.5" Silver USB 2.0 External Enclosure, plugged into my SONY VAIO VGN-NS310F laptop. It is ...
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Problem mounting external USB drive in Ubuntu 12.04
This question started as Changing file permissions on USB external hard drive but as I can find a solution I ask again.
The problem comes when I move a USB drive I have been using in Ubuntu 10.04 ...
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How do I mount my external USB drive from the LiveCD so I can get files off of my laptop?
my laptop running ubuntu 11.10 was updated to 12.04 but failed halfway through update.
i had no option but to turn the laptop off as it had frozen and back on again to find the laptop non functioning. ...
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External Hard Drives Not Detected
I am a novice user who upgraded to 11.10. In my previous version of Ubuntu, icons of my external drives(2) were visible and I could mount and navigate these drives. I cannot locate my external hard ...
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Samba user can't access external drive
If my external drive is showing up in /home/user1/.private, would another user not be able to view this? See link for example -----> Example
user1@UB-DT2-SERVER:~$ df -lhT
Filesystem Type Size ...
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External Hard Drives not mounted in Ubuntu Oneiric [closed]
I am having a strange issue with external hard drives/USB sticks/CD/SD card etc. in Oneiric 11.10. When I connect any storage device it seems that the device is recognised by the system (I get ...
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Mounting external hard drive in 11.10
I'm trying to mount an external Hitachi hard drive. Supposedly it's USB 3.0 and backwards compatible with 2.0.
I can see it with lsusb (it's "SimpleTech"):
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux ...
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3answers
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Unable to Mount an external hard drive (NTFS)
Ubuntu 11.10.
When I plug my external Drive Western Digital MyPassport (500Go NTFS) I named WD. I get the following error:
Unable to mount WD
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper ...
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“The daemon is being inhibited” error message when mounting volumes on a partitioned external HD [closed]
I'm having a great deal of difficulty with an external hard drive. I'm currently running a dual boot system (XP Service Pack 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl) on a Dell Inspiron B120.
I'm trying to ...
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How do I access an external drive mounted on a machine on my own network?
I've got one desktop computer Ubuntu 11.04 with an external USB drive mounted on it on the home WRT54L Linux network (192.168.0.2), and when I arrive at home with my laptop, I want to be able to mount ...
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How to only show certain partitions in external HDD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I hide a specific volume from the desktop, but keep all others?
When I plug in my external hard drive with three partitions, it shows up as three drives. (I know ...
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Mounting a safely removed external disk
If I unmount a drive in Ubuntu how could I mount it again without physically reconnecting the drive?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04
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Cannot mount external USB 3.0 Hard Disk
I have a USB 3.0 external hard disk which I am unable to mount. The entry appears in the "lsusb" command, but I do not exactly understand how to mount it.
This is the output for my lsusb command. ...
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HDD does not mount when restarting
I have two external HDD attached to my PC which start normally when I turn on the PC. When I restart (after an update for example) one of the two drives does not mount, always the same drive. It has ...
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External hard drive gets wrong user as owner
When I attach my external hard drive, I cannot access it, because permissions are granted not to me but to another user.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat.
Where do I report this as a bug?
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Unable to mount 1TB USB external HDD - Error
I'm getting an error when I plug in my 1TB USB external HDD, the weird thing about this is that it was working fine before and I've been using it for about a couple of months now. yesterday I ...
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Access mounted volumes via the command line
I've plugged an external hdd into my usb port, and it shows up on the desktop and in nautilus. How can i access this mounted hdd via the command line?
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How can I automatically mount eSATA drives when plugged in?
What can I do to make Ubuntu automatically mount an external drive when it is connected to an eSATA port?
Currently I must go to Home Folder ▸ Go ▸ Computer and click on the disk to mount it.
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How to turn off power management for external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex)?
I bought this 2tb Segate GoFlex this last Black Friday and since then every 15 minutes or so the drive spins down, and then a little while later completely dismounts. Very annoying.
From what I ...
