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Ubuntu 11.04 does not detect usb hdd

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I have Ubuntu 11.04 on a desktop computer. I connected a new external hard disk, via a USB port, but nothing happens, the file manager does not launch. So  have no idea if Ubuntu detected the external HDD or not.

How do I find out?

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  1. Ola on Mar 25, 2012

    What do you mean with “just simple mount the external device”?

    I cant even right click anything or do anything useful in that Disk utility. Still stuck..

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  2. aayushrke@gmail.com on Nov 14, 2011

    click on system=>administration=> disk utility where you could find your all devices (internal + external), just simple mount the external device and use it….:)

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  3. dinesh patidar on Sep 27, 2011

    how to formate pen drive

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  4. altair on Sep 16, 2011

    I’ve exactly the same problem.
    When I connect my usb hard drive or a small 1G usb pen nothing happen.

    It doesn’t appear in the output of fdisk -l.
    However, when I restart the PC the usb hdd is mounted withou any problem.
    I don’t know what to do because is quite annoying restart the server earch time I want to use the USB.

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  5. finid on Jul 11, 2011

    In addition, typing df -h at a shell terminal will also show the disks, internal and external, connected to the system.

    Running the command before and after connecting the disk will reveal which disk it is.

    You might be interested in http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/23/install-ubuntu-11-04-on-external-hard-disk/

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  6. finid on Jun 10, 2011

    I’m guessing that the external HDD is a brand new one otherwise you would not be having this issue. There are at least two ways you can see if the system detected the disk, which I’m sure it did:

    1. Open a shell terminal and type sudo fdisk -l. You should see a listing of all the disk attached to the system. On one of my systems running Linux Mint 11, a brand new external HDD I connected was listed as /dev/sdd, and you should see at the end, this line: Disk /dev/sdd doesn’t contain a valid partition table

    2. There’s a disk management application that should be installed by default. Start the application and you should see the external disk listed under the USB Pripheral devices in the side pane. You should be able to format and partition the disk any way you want using this graphical application.

    Btw, this two methods work on also on Fedora, Debian, or any other Linux distribution.

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