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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
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.
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
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
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!