Seagate 1 TB Backup Plus extermal HDD not detected in Ubuntu 10.04

Question

I have a Seagate 1 TB Backup Plus external hard drive that is partitioned in NTFS.

I don't know what's gone wrong – it was working perfectly under Windows.

Solution 1

I was having the same problem, my Seagate portable harddisk was not getting detected in Ubuntu 18.04, it seems the problem was I was connecting it via USB port 3.0, but when I have connected it with USB port 2.0 of my laptop, it got detected and working fine.

Hope this helps others as well.

Solution 2

Open terminal and type:

df

If you see your external hard drive then you know Ubuntu can see it. If it is not showing up then you need to mount it with fstab. Here is some more info on that: mounting external hard drive with fstab

Comments

[slhck]

Please also specify your exact Ubuntu version. Do you see the drive listed at all with sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL or sudo fdisk -l?

[ChrisInEdmonton]

help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

[Sobin Augustine]

@slhck Ubuntu 10.04 (version)

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