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When I connect my WD My Passport 1TB drive, it doesn't automatically mount. However, it is detected. I can see it using sudo fdisk -l, and even mount it manually using

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/hooda/ext

But having to mount it manually every time I connect is rather irritating. Why isn't Ubuntu automatically mounting it? All other HDDs/USB disks are being mounted. I'm using 14.10.

Edit:There's only a single partition

Partition FileSystem  Label     Size        Used        Unused      Flags
/dev/sdb1 ntfs        Hooda V2  931.48 GiB  808.70 GiB  122.78 GiB 

There's nothing super-critical on it, but of course I wouldn't want to lose 800GB worth of data. The drive works on Windows.

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1) please connect the drive

2) open file manager on Ubuntu

3) do you see your drive on the side bar?

3a) if yes right click the drive and select mount

3b) if no close file manager, open terminal run sudo fdisk -l Reopen file manager, do you see your drive now?

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  • the partitions on my system disk or the external disk? Jan 18, 2015 at 15:05
  • edited the question Jan 18, 2015 at 15:09
  • I have added the rest of details. Jan 18, 2015 at 15:12
  • No, the software is not needed (it's for backup and stuff, but drive works without installing it). Further, I have another drive, WD My Passport 500Gb, and that mounts just fine on both Ubuntu and Windows. Jan 18, 2015 at 15:19

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