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Different partitions listed by lsblk and fdisk
I'm having issues mounting an external WD 4TB USB HD. It has two 2GB partitions, one NTFS and the other exfat. This has been my backup disk on a RPI4 and worked well for over 5 years until yesterday ...
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Retrieve datas from an old Lacie RAID0 / JBOD array
I've had like 10 years ago a Lacie external USB 1TB hard drive. One day it stopped working properly and it turns out that the internal electronic was gone. Inside it I found two identical 500GB ...
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External Drive Shows in Sys.Profiler but Won't Mount/absent from DiskUtility (OSX 10 & 11)
I have a Sandisk 1TB Extreme USB-C external SSD that I bought and filled with an important 900GB dataset on about 16 months ago. I have not used it since. I have probably updated my mac OS to several ...
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New external drive already slow to mount and to read/write
I just bought a 5TB Seagate STJL5000400 external USB hard drive.
It takes at least 20 seconds to mount before being available to browse folders in the file manager and writing / reading is so slow.
I ...
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USB disk always mounted as offline. Anything that I can do about this?
My 2 TB 2.5" USB 3.0 external disk is never found by my TV. When I plug it to my Windows 10 Pro, it is mounted properly (Disk Management can see it), but "offline" (i.e. without any ...
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Detect in Linux Bash if USB drive is unmounted and mount it automatically
My USB drive is plugged in to a server with Ubuntu system and constantly unmounts itself for no known reason.
I want to write a script in Bash which will be run frequently by cron.
My question is how ...
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Why does my external hard drive mount as /media/TB1 instead of /media/TB?
I just added a new external USB hard drive and it's showing up in the system as TB1 when it is labeled both in the partition and in the /etc/fstab as TB. Why is this happening?
I suspect it may be ...
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How to mount an USB disk to a fix drive in Linux subsystem for Windows?
I'm working on Windows-10, where I have installed Linux subsystem for Windows (more exactly a Ubuntu).
I have mapped my USB drive on the D:-drive and Windows believes this to be a general disk:
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If I mount a portable hard drive as a folder in Windows 10, can I still use that drive as a portable drive on another computer?
I'm running out of space on my desktop computer's hard drive, mostly due to my photos and Lightroom catalog. I would like to move the photos and catalog to an external drive, but would still like it ...
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How do I repair an external hard drive with a corrupted catalog?
I'm attempting to mount my nearly filled up 1TB Mac OS Extended External Hard Drive to my MacBook Air 13" which is running MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. When I do this, the media drive mounts onto the ...
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WD 5TB HDD keeps mounting as readOnly
I have a WesternDigital external(usb3) 5TB hdd that keeps mounting as readonly every time I reconnect it.
The drive was formatted ExFat with diskUtil and is only a few months old.
I've run sudo ...
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Mount Linux USB drive via WSL2
I'm following this guide from Microsoft describing how to mount an external Linux drive via WSL2.
I have 10.0.20279 N/A Build 20279 on an ARM64 machine. I inspect the available drives with this ...
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External HDD sounds active (noticable HDD 'heart beat') upon mounting - How to check what it is doing?
I just installed two Seagate Ironwulf NAS harddisks of 4 TB in an Icy Box enclosure, Raid 1 set-up. I've setup a single partition using parted, and set up an ext4 filesystem. It's connected to a ...
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HFS+ encrypted external could not mount or not be repaired - OS X
I have a serious problem with my TimeMachine external 8TB Seagate.
It has been used as my TimeMachine disk. Did a full backup, installed lastest OS X from scratch and the external disk will no longer ...
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Seagate hard drive not recognized on any computer - Would like to wipe
I have an old Seagate external hard drive that I would like to wipe clean and repurpose. However, it isn't showing up on any computer I try it on. I can't find it on my Mac, via disk utility or ...
