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| Cant mount usb hard drive |
 Oct 25 2012, 07:17 PM
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 Whats this Lie-nix Thing?  Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 25-October 12 Member No.: 17,916  |
I have an Iomega usb hard drive that I accidentally formatted to read only.Right now it wont mount anymore.So I need to know,first,how to get it to mount again and then change it to read and write.
Os Linux mint 13 / Ubuntu 12.10 Hard drive Iomega usb 250gb |
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Oct 27 2012, 02:37 PM
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Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net Group: Support Specialist Posts: 1,807 Joined: 23-January 03 Member No.: 360 |
Can you post the model number? I could not find any information on the internet about how to format as read only.
When you plug the drive in look at the output of the dmesg command. Post any errors related to the USB drive. |
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kaliguy42 Cant mount usb hard drive Oct 25 2012, 07:17 PM
kaliguy42 model # LDHD250-U ,it wont let me post the output ... Oct 27 2012, 04:07 PM michaelk You do not need to post the entire output just the... Oct 28 2012, 10:38 AM kaliguy42 [ 43.136095] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device ... Oct 28 2012, 01:04 PM michaelk How did you reformat the device?
It looks like n... Oct 28 2012, 02:54 PM kaliguy42 Using the disk utility and I accidentally made it ... Oct 28 2012, 06:58 PM michaelk What disk utility? Oct 28 2012, 07:41 PM kaliguy42 The one that comes with mint,its just called disk ... Oct 28 2012, 09:53 PM michaelk Post the output of the command (as root or via sud... Oct 29 2012, 10:13 AM kaliguy42 fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.1 GB, 400088... Oct 29 2012, 10:37 AM michaelk Looks like sdb is not the correct drive. Post the... Oct 29 2012, 12:12 PM kaliguy42 fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 by... Oct 29 2012, 07:38 PM kaliguy42 I took the drive out of the usb and hooked it to t... Nov 5 2012, 02:23 PM michaelk Thanks for posting back the status. Nov 5 2012, 03:04 PM jiruska QUOTE (kaliguy42 @ Oct 25 2012, 07:17 PM)... Apr 28 2016, 10:21 AM
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