Cannot locate newly installed HDD on Linus Mint???
 

Hi Guys,

Just installed Linux Mint on my PC. I'm unable to locate my external hard drive though. How do I go about doing this?

1. What external disk? USB or other?
2. What filesystem is used on this disk?
3. You have to mount the disk before you can access it.

In addition to the above, please open a terminal and post the output of the following commands:

External hard drive does not mount on Linux Mint
 

Hi, I have a 2TB external hdd which shows on Linux Mint but when I click on more actions, i cannot click on "edit mount options".
Used to have the hdd connected to a windows 7 pc

usb 2tb external
NTFS
mount options not accessible at more actions

If you are using a current release of Linux Mint it should be available under the /media/username directory by UUID.

I went to Accessories, clicked on Disks,clicked on the 2tb hdd, clicked on More Actions,the Edit Mount Options is unavailable. I clicked on Edit Partition and changed it from FAT16 to Linux Swap. This still does not help????? Hdd worked perfectly on windows 7

Please read post #3 above.

Of course it doesn't...

First, you said it was NTFS. When did it become FAT16? Second, why did you change it to swap? That's the last thing you want. Swap is the equivalent of Windows' "page file", it's used as a place to dump RAM contents when you're running out of memory. I hope you didn't have anything important on the drive because it's all gone now that you've reformatted it.

I did not format the HDD, i only went to edit partition to change the Type. Please see below for your commands:

kcoutriers@kcoutriers-Mecer-X102 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kcoutriers:

kcoutriers@kcoutriers-Mecer-X102 ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use Mounted on
/dev/sda1 451G 8,5G 420G 2% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 5,9G 4,0K 5,9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1,2G 1,4M 1,2G 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 5,9G 728K 5,9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user


kcoutriers@kcoutriers-Mecer-X102 ~ $ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kcoutriers)

When on windows 7 it showed as NTFS, when I connected it to Linux, noticed it changed to FAT16

You didn't post the output of fdisk -l, you just posted your password prompt. Fill in your password, press enter, and then post the output of the command.

At least we know the drive isn't currently mounted.

Changing the partition type requires reformatting.

after I enter fdisk -l command, I cannot enter anything else, not even password. Does not allow me to enter password or anything else

Password prompts on the Linux command line do not echo stars at you as you type your password. Just type it in like you would normally and hit enter.

Aplogies, see below:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000df24c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 960088063 480043008 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 960090110 976771071 8340481 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 960090112 976771071 8340480 82 Linux swap / Solaris