I can't get ubuntu to work with my external hard drive!
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I can't get ubuntu to work with my external hard drive!
this was working FLAWLESSLY before installing BB.
I could access info on my external, one hundred and sixty gigabyte hard drive, without ANY PROBLEMS.
now, I get new errors every time I try to do something.
this just completely blew my mind.
kingrames@kingrames:/media$ cd sda1
bash: cd: sda1: Permission denied
kingrames@kingrames:/media$ sudo cd sda1
sudo: cd: command not found
WHAT the HELL is wrong with this?
I have tried everything to get this damn drive to work. I can't chmod ANYTHING because it's a read-only drive.
I can't view anything because I don't have the permissions.
How, HOW am I supposed to access this drive? what is the POINT of locking out the user from hardware by default?
especially something as important as an external drive!
and I already did sudo chmod -R 777 /media/onesixtygig
and sudo umount -r /dev/sda1
and sudo chmod a+rx /media/onesixtygig
(this one ticks me off the most - every single file on the hard drive is listed along with an error message saying that I can't change the file permissions due to it being read-only)
double-clicking on the link to onesixtygig on my desktop returns the error message "You don't have the permissions to view these fles."
atttempting to unmount it says "Unable to Eject Media - umount: only root can unmount /dev/sda1 from /media/sda1
eject: unmount of `/media/sda1' failed
"
I'm just about to snap - can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30758289408 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59598 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13874 6992118 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 13874 15436 787185 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 * 15436 59591 22254183 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS
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