I downloaded Ubuntu onto a cd and booted my laptop with it. When it was loading up it said something about checking filesystems. I just let it run until it was done. It then gave me an option to try Ubuntu or install it. I did the option to try it and it went to the desktop.
I then connected the HDD via this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SB3PD4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_4RDNJHV129BM7DWHNKNC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
The HDD model is this: Hitachi IC35L090AVV207-0
I opened Files to see if I could open and read the HDD but I don't see it in Other Locations. I then followed a guide and found that the name for the HDD I'm looking for is sda
. I then ran sudo fdisk -l
and then afterwards ran sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt
. However, it returned an error that said mount: /mnt: no medium found on /dev/sda
. What am I doing wrong?
lsblk
will list block devices (disks, partitions etc) or you could useblkid
to view block device IDs... The model of drive matters less (you gave very specific details on that) than the motherboard & especially settings in the firmware of your actual hardware (you gave no specifics on that, but we may not know your specific hardware anyway.. thus viewing details using commands is more useful such aslsblk
,blkid
etc)