Not allowed to open disk

[Rapidrob]

I was running an internal HDD yesterday for several hours and shut down.
Today I cannot open the disk no matter what I try to do. I get a constant error " Not authorized to perform operation ( udisk-error-quark,4 )"
disk: /dev/sdb1 ..... Disk is OK no errors.
I store a very large amount of info on this disk. Please help.

[Rapidrob]

This morning I disabled VirtualBox to speed up my computer, could this cause the problem?
If so how do I restore VirtualBox?

[Rapidrob]

edited-problem came back.see below

[Rapidrob]

This has become a real problem. The disk is now mounted but NEVER shown in FILES and it cannot be opened if clicked on.
It is listed under DRIVES but it will not open. " cannot mount file" is shown.

[Rapidrob]

Disk is no longer mounted and the original error is now back. PLEASE HELP!

[Rapidrob]

Now, none of the ADD/Remove Software Apps in the pop-up menu will open! No error or password question, nothing happens!

[firenice03]

Some added info - this may help those who may be looking on..

Is this the same disk that LL is installed? or is this a secondary "data" disk?
How was it added?
- Was the disk there during install or added after the fact? Was the disk "removed" either physically or via commands (if so what?)


How was this disk formatted - # partitions and Format (NTFS/EXT4 etc) is it an LVM?


Did you during the time the disk was mounted, set up or add disk encryption?


Is this an internal (SATA) or external (USB) connected disk.
Have you tried mounting the disk as a USB (mass storage) device?



perhaps posting the output of the..

Code:

lsblk
sudo fdisk -l

Maybe worth a check if UUID's match if it was added to fstab

Code:

cat /etc/fstab
blkid

As much info as you can provide about the disk/system will ensure those to help have the necessary info..

[Rapidrob]

The HDD.....sdb1 has been there since the get go. Has worked for two years. I pulled it ( hot swap-able ) and tried it in my other LL computer and all files popped-up as you'd expect them too.
This just started to happen today after I removed Virtualbox to speed up my boot time ( more than two minutes)
Now I no longer have permission to open the HDD. It will not mount. It holds backups and my music/photo files.






I did add DeadBeef to play music as VLC's quality is not up to par yesterday, and the software worked just fine.
As I posted, I shut down last night, re-booted this morning and the sdb1 HDD cannot be opened in this computer anymore.

[Rapidrob]

computer info:

[firenice03]

[member=9258]Rapidrob[/member] So I dont think any of the programs you installed/removed caused the issue..

Just to make sure - this disk is not encrypted??

I don't see a mount point for sdb1 in the fstab..
How is the file system typically accessed? What directory (i.e. thru /mnt or /media or /data) ??
Did it show up automatically after boot to the directory? or do you issue mount commands or disks GUI?

Thus far.. I think it lost it mappings..
lsblk - shows the disk and partition which fdisk and the other commands confirm...


Assuming you don't already have anything mounted to /mnt (confirm with ls /mnt) - do you get the same error with

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

If no error or ouput... do

Code:

ls /mnt

**Update**
Oh - maybe easier to copy and paste the output into the post..
Once you have it pasted - highlight the text and click the "#" icon... To surround it in code context..


If the above works - I may have you repost the output of blkid - it'll be easier to copy/paste UUIDs..