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I have a Seagate External Hard Drive. When I plug it into my laptop Noting happens. If I open Gparted to see if Ubuntu is even seeing the drive there is a little "!" icon with a notice that says: enter image description here

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  • Was this drive plugged into a Windows 8 or 10 system. The error message is typical of partitions left mounted. Either because Windows was hibernated or newer Windows fast start up left on which is always hibernated. Or incorrectly removed from another system. So either mount with Windows and make sure hibernation is off, or run chkdsk from Windows. You may be able to force mount in read only mode -ro or force delete of hiber file. askubuntu.com/questions/145902/…
    – oldfred
    Jan 27, 2016 at 20:16
  • As stated by oldfred, a common cause is not shutting down windows properly (Start -> Shutdown) which leaves the NTFS file system in an inconsistent state. When this happens and you are booting Windows, Windows will run "chkdsk /f" on the drive letter.
    – Curtis Gedak
    Jan 29, 2016 at 17:07

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Try with this:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
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  • I tried that already. All I got was "ntfs-3g is already the newest version."
    – Max Kulik
    Jan 27, 2016 at 19:54

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