mwoods98 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 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) Quote Link to comment
dlandon Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
mwoods98 Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment
dlandon Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
mwoods98 Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
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