No USB Hard Disk!!

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I have a usb hard disk, which really is an internal drive with casing. Well the problem is that whenever i connect it to my comp. fedora does nothing, it doesn´t even show an error. i don´t know what to do as most of my music lies in that drive. Please HELP!!

Did you try to mount it manually ?

Check out in places menu in case of Gnome

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

might help to show the drives

i´m using fedora core 9. it says command not found when i type fdisk -l.

Use this in Terminal

Code:

su

and enter the root password to have root privilege ,then use

Code:

fdisk -l

^^use
su -

"-" is necessary AFAIK.

ok..... so now i can see my usb drive in the terminal, but how to mount it and make fedora mount it automatically whenever i connect it. Also i still don´t know why the drive is still not shown in the places menu ??

T159 said:
^^use
su -

"-" is necessary AFAIK.

nah its not.

You have to edit /etc/fstab file and make an entry for that hard drive

k it was on older version so

could anyone confirm ?

What is the Hard Disk's format? ntfs/fat?

the usb drive has 4 partitions(as it was formerly an internal drive) and all of them are FAT32.

What is the output of fdisk -l and blkid with the drive connected?

or use
ls /dev/disk/by-uuid
to get the UUID of the partitions