Can't find old HDD

[Monkeyman]

What is the output of:

Code:

sudo lshw -class disk

*-disk                 
      description: ATA Disk
      product: ST1000DM005 HD10
      vendor: Seagate
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sda
      version: 1AJ1
      serial: S246J9EC436309
      size: 931GiB (1TB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=2238c11d
  *-disk
      description: ATA Disk
      product: WDC WD1001FALS-0
      vendor: Western Digital
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sdb
      version: 05.0
      serial: WD-WMATV7560948
      size: 931GiB (1TB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=c21c55c2
  *-disk
      description: ATA Disk
      product: WDC WD3200AAKX-0
      vendor: Western Digital
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sdc
      version: 15.0
      serial: WD-WCAYUAE67067
      size: 298GiB (320GB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000cd22a
  *-disk
      description: ATA Disk
      product: WDC WD1001FALS-0
      vendor: Western Digital
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@7:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sdd
      version: 05.0
      serial: WD-WMATV3056135
      size: 931GiB (1TB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=46a7a310
  *-cdrom
      description: DVD-RAM writer
      product: DVD A  DH24ABS
      vendor: ATAPI
      physical id: 0.1.0
      bus info: scsi@7:0.1.0
      logical name: /dev/cdrom
      logical name: /dev/sr0
      version: AX13
      capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
      configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
  *-disk
      description: SCSI Disk
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@9:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sde
      size: 14GiB (15GB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=c3072e18
  *-disk
      description: SCSI Disk
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@12:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sdf
      size: 465GiB (500GB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=5fdf7d9c

[anon222]

So it's /dev/sdf
list partitions

Code:

sudo parted -l

[Monkeyman]

This is for that particular drive, not all of them.

Model: ST500DM0 05 HD502HJ (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdf: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End    Size  Type    File system  Flags
1      1049kB  500GB  500GB  primary  ntfs

[anon222]

Now you can see that the drive has one ntfs partition
You'll have to make this folder

Code:

sudo mkdir /media/external

then edit /etc/fstab (be carefull not to remove anything)

Code:

gksudo leafpad /etc/fstab

add this line to the end

Code:

/dev/sdf /media/external ntfs defaults 0 0

save it and exit
you can now mount it without restart

Code:

sudo mount -a

[Monkeyman]

Didn't seem to work.  I did what you said but when I entered the last command in terminal, this is what I got:

monkeyman@monkeyman:~$ sudo mkdir /media/external
[sudo] password for monkeyman:
monkeyman@monkeyman:~$ gksudo leafpad /etc/fstab
'monkeyman@monkeyman:~$ sudo mount -a
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdf': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdf' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

[anon222]

That is a removable device?
undo what you did to /etc/fstab
try to mount it this way

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf /media/external

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/external

[Monkeyman]

Hang on.  New info.  I now have an icon on my desktop (just noticed it...sorry) that says "external".  (This must be the folder I created?)  When I right click on it to mount it (it's grayed out just like the others were until I mounted them) and select Mount, I get this error: 

Failed to mount "external".
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdf on /media/external

I don't get any additional choice to enter my root password, just a Close button.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

make 'mount 'sudo mount', and you'll get the prompt...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Monkeyman]

Hello!

make 'mount 'sudo mount', and you'll get the prompt...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Just tried that.  See my results below.

[Monkeyman]

That is a removable device?
undo what you did to /etc/fstab
try to mount it this way

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf /media/external

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/external

It's a HDD in a USB external enclosure.  I undid whatn I did to /etc/fstab (removed that last line) then tried both new commands.  I got "only root can do that" so I added "sudo" to the front end.  Here's what I got.

monkeyman@monkeyman:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf /media/external
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdf': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdf' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

monkeyman@monkeyman:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/external
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x44414142  size: 1024  usa_ofs: 20480  usa_count: 36364: Invalid argument
Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x44414142)
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdf1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.

Since I don't know what that means, I'll leave things alone until I hear back from someone.  I'm not running Windows so I don't know what that has to do with anything and it's never been RAID'ed.