Ubuntu Cannot Detect External Harddisk ?

[TAIPA]

Hello, I Have an External Portable Hardisk Drive Which i I Was Previously Using in Windows Vista and Now i Have a laptop With Ubuntu Installed In it But When i Tried To Connect It with my Laptop ,although it Was Detected But i Was Unable to mount it So Could you tell me the method in Ubuntu 8.1 For detecting an external hard drive previously used with vista 32bit. Is it a conflict with the 64bit. Thank you in advance for Suggestion

[RoninBlade]

Hello, Is Your External Hardisk Is In NTfs Format ? and yes, reformatting it would help a little. use ext3. GPartEd (GNOME Partition Editor) is included on the livecd, but you will have to install it to use in without the disc. (apt-get install gparted?) there may be troubles with the usb port or something if none works.

[deoWo]

Hello You Need to mount external hard disk manually if auto detect failed on Ubuntu. Recently I have problem mounting external hard disk on Ubuntu. It used to be OK, but after a regular system update, my HDD can’t be automatically detected.I open terminal and execute the following command:

sudo lsusb

The Hard Disk is detected and a window’s opened that showed the files, and I can again see the folder icon on my desktop.

Hope it Will Help You

[Rawko]

Hello , Ok, I know how to solve the problem. In /etc/fstab you should have a line that starts with this:

/dev/sdb1

Cut and paste this line to /etc/mtab. Note: if you want to mount the volume in /home/disk, be sure that after /dev/sdb1 there's /home/disk. Hope it Work for you too

[T.J.]

Hello, Ubuntu should automatically detect and mount any drives it can read. It cannot write to NTFS though, unless you use a program (forgot what it was called) that is still in beta (last time I checked). As for file transfer between the two desks, make a FAT32 partition. I made one that's a mere 5gb and it's a real life saver!