May 5, 20206 yr So today I connected an old drive so that I could copy over some old files and store it on my array. I connected the drive, let it spin up but it doesn't show as mountable in the unassigned devices. I connected a USB drive just to make sure things were working right and this shows up just fine. The only option I have for the hard drive is to pre-clear it. SDAE can be mounted while SDW can only be precleared. Anyone have any idea why I can't access the file systems? (Standard NTFS for windows)
May 5, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, mwoods98 said: So today I connected an old drive so that I could copy over some old files and store it on my array. I connected the drive, let it spin up but it doesn't show as mountable in the unassigned devices. I connected a USB drive just to make sure things were working right and this shows up just fine. The only option I have for the hard drive is to pre-clear it. SDAE can be mounted while SDW can only be precleared. Anyone have any idea why I can't access the file systems? (Standard NTFS for windows) The disk format is not detected by Linux.
May 5, 20206 yr Author 16 minutes ago, dlandon said: The disk format is not detected by Linux. Gotcha, But what I'm trying to figure is, why isn't it showing as mountable? So I can copy files from it?
May 5, 20206 yr 57 minutes ago, mwoods98 said: Gotcha, But what I'm trying to figure is, why isn't it showing as mountable? So I can copy files from it? Some partition layouts are not seen by Linux as valid partitions. Take it to a Windows computer and see if the partition layout makes sense.
May 6, 20206 yr Author Thanks. That was it. I thought it was a good drive but when I got it into a windows box it was not readable. No harm done and thanks for the tip.
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