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Mounting an External Hard Drive with Hardy

Ok, I have Ubunutu- Hardy, and i recently got a 320 gig CAUM series Calvary 320 gig hard drive, but now I am totally unsure how to mount it. It recognizes it, but it gives me this

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...Screenshot.png

Errr, I have no idea what I'm doing. Will someone please help?

Ok. Got the fdisk to work,

Code:

root@Mr_Anderson:/home/sage# fdisk -l



Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x18000000



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1              1          6      48163+  de  Dell Utility

/dev/sda2              7        268    2104515    b  W95 FAT32

/dev/sda3  *        269        293      200812+  83  Linux

/dev/sda4            294      19452  153894667+  f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/sda5            294        455    1301233+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda6            456      19452  152593371  83  Linux



Disk /dev/sdf: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x78979b83



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdf1              1      38913  312568641    7  HPFS/NTFS

So... now what? Please speak slowly, I have no idea what I'm doing.

Seems you should be reading (all) those messages.
<rant>
The screen shots reveals why we shouldn't use NTFS on Linux. It (still) requires a bootable Windoze systems to validate/verify NTFS.
</rant>
Yes, I know it's not something you did. If it's a new drive, do as the messagebox suggest and force the mount. Or go find some-one that has Windoze.

As for the latter problem, the help text is right there - I don't see a capital L as an option.
On Ubuntu, you'll get a problem opening the device - try "sudo fdisk -l".

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00 (Post 3395264)

Yes, I figured out that I should do sudo... after only half an hour *Very, very beginner*
Yes, it's a new drive, but I honestly have no clue how to force the mount. That is what I am asking.

Just as it suggests from a terminal

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/NewVolume -o force

I'd be mildly surprised if that works, but worth a try. Might need sudo, might not find the mountpoint - try it and see.

Ok, what I (my brother) ended up doing was using the partition editor to delete the old partition on the external drive, then creating a new one, then changing the permissions on it. i have no idea why that worked, but it did.