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I have a 1tb hard drive which I want to dump everything on my ssd on so I can use my whole ssd for debian, but I can't access the hard drive. In disks it shows its size and serial number, but where it says contents it says unknown. AFAIK it should be ntfs because I used it in windows, its completely inaccessible as It doesn't show up in files and trying to mount it says

Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Invalid argumentThe device '/dev/sdb' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition? Or the other way around?

Then if I try to mount sdb1 it says special device does not exist.

 

 

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Did you try to mount the drive itself or the partition? You should always mount the partition.

 

Anyway, please post what this command outputs :

gdisk -l <disk>

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Debian cannot see the ntfs drive.

 

First install:

apt-get install libfuse2apt-get install ntfs-3g

Then please post the output of:

 fdisk -l | grep NTFS

It will give you something like this, or it should:

 /dev/hda   *           1       27347   256829434+    7  HPFS/NTFS

Once we have the output, we can check to see if it mounted. It looks like it is, but do the following just in case:

mount

and then we need to unmount the drive:

umount /dev/hda*

Next we need to create a folder to mount the drive at. For example, something like this:

mkdir /media/1TBDrive

Now we remount the drive to the location:

 mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/hda* /media/1TBDrive

hda* will be different for you, depending on first command given. Also you can name the folder whatever you want.

 

That should do it. If not, please provide all errors for us. :)

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Did you try to mount the drive itself or the partition? You should always mount the partition.

 

Anyway, please post what this command outputs :

gdisk -l <disk>

Partition table scan:

MBR: not present

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: not present

 

Creating new gpt entries.

Disk /dev/dsb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB

logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID) ...

partition table holds up to 128 entries

first usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134

partition will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries

total free space is 193525101 (931.5 GiB)

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fdisk: /dev/sdc1 * 64 2693183 2693120 1.3G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

mount: ton of crap that I'm not typing unless you need it :P

umount: /dev/sdb: not mounted

mount: the device '/dev/sdb' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? ... etc

 

Yes, I need it. You don't need to type it. Just highlight, copy and then paste it here.

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Yes, I need it. You don't need to type it. Just highlight, copy and then paste it here.

Can't really copy and paste because I'm borrowing a laptop as my main rig is barely functional atm. Internet isn't working on live debian either.

 

Here you go, fresh off a flash drive

user@[member='Debian']:~$ mountsysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1644000k,mode=755)/dev/sdc1 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660 (ro,noatime)/dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs (ro,noatime)tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755)aufs on / type aufs (rw,noatime,si=b22de5149b98c25f,noxino)devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1014717,mode=755)securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=21,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=822000k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)/dev/sda1 on /media/user/b229b7f0-9c79-483e-812f-cd870a12adb1 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)user@[member='Debian']:~$

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Can't really copy and paste because I'm borrowing a laptop as my main rig is barely functional atm. Internet isn't working on live debian either.

 

Here you go, fresh off a flash drive

user@[member='Debian']:~$ mountsysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1644000k,mode=755)/dev/sdc1 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660 (ro,noatime)/dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs (ro,noatime)tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755)aufs on / type aufs (rw,noatime,si=b22de5149b98c25f,noxino)devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1014717,mode=755)securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=21,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=822000k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)/dev/sda1 on /media/user/b229b7f0-9c79-483e-812f-cd870a12adb1 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)user@[member='Debian']:~$

 

 

Is the output of this:

fdisk -l | grep NTFS

Only giving you this?

fdisk: /dev/sdc1 * 64 2693183 2693120 1.3G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

If so, do this:

sudo mkdir /media/1TBDrive*

*rename to whatever you want. Keep it simple and to the point.

 

Now run this:

sudo blkid

Looking for the line pertaining to "sdc1", the hard drive in question. The output should have given you something like this:

/dev/sdc1: LABEL="1TBDRIVE" UUID="2515851568213" TYPE="ntfs"

Copy the bolded parts (or the whole line!) and set it aside (paste it here if needed).

 

Next we will open fstab and add the hard drive to the file:

sudo -H gedit /etc/fstab

Now remember the thing I had you set aside? You are going to need the string of numbers after "UUID" and the mnt location. Copy this line and edit out the parts with the information of the drive you need/want:

UUID=XXXXXXXXX /media/1TBDrive* ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Where "XXXXXXXXXXXX" is the UUID of your drive. Save this file and exit out of the terminal or open a new terminal window/tab.

 

Now we need to unmount the drive.

sudo umount /dev/sdc1

Next we need to remount the fstab with the following:

sudo mount -a

That should do it. Report in full detail any errors or questions.

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Uhh I don't see my hard drive (/dev/sdb) in sudo blkid

 

When you mount you don't mount directly to the drive, but the parititions on it, otherwise the meta-data is missing and the mount fails. That's why I had you try to mount to "sdc1" as it appears from the earlier outputs you gave me is the target hdd.

 

Give me the output of each of these please, the full output and please be sure to seperate each output from one another, it will be easier for me to read.

cat /etc/fstabsudo blkidsudo fdisk -lu

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When you mount you don't mount directly to the drive, but the parititions on it, otherwise the meta-data is missing and the mount fails. That's why I had you try to mount to "sdc1" as it appears from the earlier outputs you gave me is the target hdd.

 

Give me the output of each of these please, the full output and please be sure to seperate each output from one another, it will be easier for me to read.

cat /etc/fstabsudo blkidsudo fdisk -lu

cat /etc/fstab

aufs / aufs rw 0 0tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosui,nodev 0 0

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="b229b7f0-9c79-483e-812f-cd870a12adb1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="060aeeb7-6485-42ad-8834-a3fc1f852b38"/dev/sda11: LABEL="SSD Storage" UUID="F214590D1458D667" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="b7bafdbe-b9ac-4538-871e-0cb5853a7f49"/dev/sda3: UUID="8180-411B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="d48c35e3-7df7-471f-bb2c-a4e9784c9260"/dev/sdc1: UUID="2015-06-06-14-29-11-00" LABEL="Debian jessie 20150606-15:29" TYPE="iso9660" PARTUUID="14024047-01"/dev/sda2: UUID="e422360c-617e-48ed-929c-6d22c868b182" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="8387f190-9e9a-40e6-b49a-86999cf41728"/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"/dev/sdd1: LABEL="LEXAR" UUID="1AE4-177D" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="57b1a85b-01"

sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: 7198EABA-4295-4BA9-BB02-789D90841637Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type/dev/sda1       2048  58720255  58718208   28G Linux filesystem/dev/sda2  224737280 225736703    999424  488M Linux swap/dev/sda3  225736704 226127871    391168  191M EFI System/dev/sda11  58720256 224735880 166015625 79.2G Microsoft basic dataPartition table entries are not in disk order.Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisk /dev/sdc: 7.6 GiB, 8162115584 bytes, 15941632 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x14024047Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type/dev/sdc1  *       64 2693183 2693120  1.3G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFSDisk /dev/loop0: 1.2 GiB, 1251897344 bytes, 2445112 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisk /dev/sdd: 7.5 GiB, 8017412096 bytes, 15659008 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x57b1a85bDevice     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type/dev/sdd1        2168 15659007 15656840  7.5G  b W95 FAT32

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cat /etc/fstab

aufs / aufs rw 0 0tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosui,nodev 0 0

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="b229b7f0-9c79-483e-812f-cd870a12adb1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="060aeeb7-6485-42ad-8834-a3fc1f852b38"/dev/sda11: LABEL="SSD Storage" UUID="F214590D1458D667" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="b7bafdbe-b9ac-4538-871e-0cb5853a7f49"/dev/sda3: UUID="8180-411B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="d48c35e3-7df7-471f-bb2c-a4e9784c9260"/dev/sdc1: UUID="2015-06-06-14-29-11-00" LABEL="Debian jessie 20150606-15:29" TYPE="iso9660" PARTUUID="14024047-01"/dev/sda2: UUID="e422360c-617e-48ed-929c-6d22c868b182" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="8387f190-9e9a-40e6-b49a-86999cf41728"/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"/dev/sdd1: LABEL="LEXAR" UUID="1AE4-177D" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="57b1a85b-01"

sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: 7198EABA-4295-4BA9-BB02-789D90841637Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type/dev/sda1       2048  58720255  58718208   28G Linux filesystem/dev/sda2  224737280 225736703    999424  488M Linux swap/dev/sda3  225736704 226127871    391168  191M EFI System/dev/sda11  58720256 224735880 166015625 79.2G Microsoft basic dataPartition table entries are not in disk order.Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisk /dev/sdc: 7.6 GiB, 8162115584 bytes, 15941632 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x14024047Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type/dev/sdc1  *       64 2693183 2693120  1.3G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFSDisk /dev/loop0: 1.2 GiB, 1251897344 bytes, 2445112 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisk /dev/sdd: 7.5 GiB, 8017412096 bytes, 15659008 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x57b1a85bDevice     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type/dev/sdd1        2168 15659007 15656840  7.5G  b W95 FAT32

 

That's odd.

 

Did you name your 1TB drive? Is it "SSD Storage"? Also, did you get your 1TB from an external book that offers a locking/protection feature? Like an encryption? Does it pick up in Windows and can you see what is in side etc etc?

 

Give me the output of these please. Hopefully you do not have an ldm reading.

gdisk -l /dev/sdbgdisk -l /dev/sdc1

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Unless you have other 1tb drives, "/dev/sdb" is definitely the drive. You said trying to mount to "sdb1" gives you an error, can you post that entirely please?

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That's odd.

 

Did you name your 1TB drive? Is it "SSD Storage"? Also, did you get your 1TB from an external book that offers a locking/protection feature? Like an encryption? Does it pick up in Windows and can you see what is in side etc etc?

 

Give me the output of these please. Hopefully you do not have an ldm reading.

gdisk -l /dev/sdbgdisk -l /dev/sdc1

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Unless you have other 1tb drives, "/dev/sdb" is definitely the drive. You said trying to mount to "sdb1" gives you an error, can you post that entirely please?

 

I did not name my 1tb. SSD storage is a non-os partition on my ssd. No other 1tbs, I have a single ssd and a single hd. I honestly don't know why my debian is so weird. I've had a number of other issues. Such as ethernet not connecting, normal.mod not found while trying to actually boot ( on live usb now) and I've tried several different isos.

 

sdb

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10Partition table scan:  MBR: not present  BSD: not present  APM: not present  GPT: not presentCreating new GPT entries.Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): FAE44A8D-A10E-446C-9841-7D2F5BA52CB1Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 1953525101 sectors (931.5 GiB)Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

 

sdc1

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10Partition table scan:  MBR: not present  BSD: not present  APM: not present  GPT: not presentCreating new GPT entries.Disk /dev/sdc1: 2693120 sectors, 1.3 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): 4391C3CA-5BD3-4AC7-A6A9-AAF959011892Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 2693086Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 2693053 sectors (1.3 GiB)Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

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I did not name my 1tb. SSD storage is a non-os partition on my ssd. No other 1tbs, I have a single ssd and a single hd. I honestly don't know why my debian is so weird. I've had a number of other issues. Such as ethernet not connecting, normal.mod not found while trying to actually boot ( on live usb now) and I've tried several different isos.

 

sdb

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10Partition table scan:  MBR: not present  BSD: not present  APM: not present  GPT: not presentCreating new GPT entries.Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): FAE44A8D-A10E-446C-9841-7D2F5BA52CB1Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 1953525101 sectors (931.5 GiB)Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

 

sdc1

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10Partition table scan:  MBR: not present  BSD: not present  APM: not present  GPT: not presentCreating new GPT entries.Disk /dev/sdc1: 2693120 sectors, 1.3 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): 4391C3CA-5BD3-4AC7-A6A9-AAF959011892Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 2693086Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 2693053 sectors (1.3 GiB)Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

 

Okay, I'm assuming your hard drive is not locked, can be seen in Windows/explored and does not have encryption and that you haven't recently formatted the drive. If any of that is incorrect, please tell me.

 

Try this and give me the entire output:

sudo blkid /dev/sdb1

Remember, we need to mount to the partition, not the entire drive (sdb). Remember to use sudo too please.

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Okay, I'm assuming your hard drive is not locked, can be seen in Windows/explored and does not have encryption and that you haven't recently formatted the drive. If any of that is incorrect, please tell me.

 

Try this and give me the entire output:

sudo blkid /dev/sdb1

Remember, we need to mount to the partition, not the entire drive (sdb). Remember to use sudo too please.

No, its just a normal hard drive.

 

That command didn't output anything.

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No, its just a normal hard drive.

 

That command didn't output anything.

 

Have you recently formatted? And are you making sure to use sudo for each command?

 

Try this:

sudo sfdisk -R

If it errors out, umount sdb and then try again. Also check your OS's native Disk Utility program and see if the 1TB drive is there. For example, on Ubuntu it is called "Disk Utility" but it also has one called "Disks".

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Have you recently formatted? And are you making sure to use sudo for each command?

 

Try this:

sudo sfdisk -R

If it errors out, umount sdb and then try again. Also check your OS's native Disk Utility program and see if the 1TB drive is there. For example, on Ubuntu it is called "Disk Utility" but it also has one called "Disks".

No, only part of my ssd was formatted, have not touched my hd. Yes I'm using sudo.

 

That didn't do anything from what I can see.

I can't umount it

And Its called disks in debian too, it shows up there but the contents section says unknow

the volumes sections says 1.0tb unknown

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No, only part of my ssd was formatted, have not touched my hd. Yes I'm using sudo.

 

That didn't do anything from what I can see.

I can't umount it

And Its called disks in debian too, it shows up there but the contents section says unknow

the volumes sections says 1.0tb unknown

 

What do you mean from what you can see? Does it give out any errors, or is it all blank? Please post what it does, either with a text paste or a screenshot.

 

And you said what you are trying to access is a hard drive, not a SSD, so that's why I was asking about formatting the HDD. If nothing is on the hard drive 1tb format it using gParted as fat32 (so that it can be used on Ubuntu and Windows) and then see if Debian picks it up.

 

If you have things on the hard drive and you do not wish to lose it, give me the output of:

sudo lshw -C disksudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

And then try this:

sudo mkdir /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount -a

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It doesn't error it just makes a new line in console

 

I'd really like to not lose all that, its where I install steam games.

 

lshw isn't installed and I can't find a way to download it on to a usb.

 

That means it should have worked. And alright then, but it would help if you could see if your OS's disk utilities all bring up the hard drive information without any errors or warnings.

 

To install Ishw, do:

sudo apt-get install lshw

And did you do this part of my post?

sudo mkdir /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount -a

*name it and remove the " * ".

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That means it should have worked. And alright then, but it would help if you could see if your OS's disk utilities all bring up the hard drive information without any errors or warnings.

 

To install Ishw, do:

sudo apt-get install lshw

And did you do this part of my post?

sudo mkdir /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/1TBDrive*sudo mount -a

*name it and remove the " * ".

Yeah... uh debian isn't liking my ethernet connection...

I'll do some googling and see what I can find since I evidently need to get that out of the way first.

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Yeah... uh debian isn't liking my ethernet connection...

I'll do some googling and see what I can find since I evidently need to get that out of the way first.

 

More of your system is broken? Like what exactly? And is reinstalling an option for you?

 

 

Still try the second commands, the mounting ones, please.

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More of your system is broken? Like what exactly? And is reinstalling an option for you?

 

 

Still try the second commands, the mounting ones, please.

I had issues installing, whats going on now is that theres an error with error.mod missing, I figured I'll try to reinstall using the whole ssd right after I put all my ssd files onto my hd, which is why I need the hd fixed currently. I'm using live usb to try to fix it.

 

as for the mount commands it saysspecial device /dev/sdb1 does not exist.

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I had issues installing, whats going on now is that theres an error with error.mod missing, I figured I'll try to reinstall using the whole ssd right after I put all my ssd files onto my hd, which is why I need the hd fixed currently. I'm using live usb to try to fix it.

 

as for the mount commands it saysspecial device /dev/sdb1 does not exist.

 

Well...I have something that might help but you would have to be really careful with typing it or it could break the GRUB. If you want to try it:

cd /dev/./MAKEDEV sdb1

(those are seperate commands by the way)

 

Or you can try this just for shtako and giggles:

sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /media/1TBDrive/ORsudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1TBDrivesudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1TBDrive

Until then we will need to fix your internet first so that we can install packages etc etc.

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Well...I have something that might help but you would have to be really careful with typing it or it could break the GRUB. If you want to try it:

cd /dev/./MAKEDEV sdb1

(those are seperate commands by the way)

 

Or you can try this just for shtako and giggles:

sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /media/1TBDrive/ORsudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1TBDrivesudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1TBDrive

Until then we will need to fix your internet first so that we can install packages etc etc.

MAKEDEV: no such file or directory.

 

Here's an unrelated screenshot in case it helps somehow

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