Unassigned devices can't mount drive

[mwoods98]

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)

 

 

[dlandon]

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.

[mwoods98]

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?

[dlandon]

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.

[mwoods98]

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.