can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

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can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby AmahiFJK » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:43 am

can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu.

The file manager say I do not have permissions to access the drive. In the Amahi Control panel under storage, I can see the drive and it has about 50 GB of data on it.

EDIT. The Drive is on a USB dock

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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby bigfoot65 » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:08 am

Did you mount it? The OS may see it, but not be mounted.

USB drives have to be mounted like second hard drives using hda-diskmount. You can make it permanent as well following the wiki guidance.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA
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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby AmahiFJK » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:27 am

According to Disk Utility it is mounted. I had the same setup of drives as I had before I reinstalled; 3 x 1 TB Satas and the 80 GB on the usb dock.

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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby AmahiFJK » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:01 pm

I downloaded diskinternal Linux reader. I copied all the files onto a Windows 7 machine. Now I'll try to reformat the 80 GB drive in Ubuntu

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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby bigfoot65 » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:46 pm

I would recommend you unmount the drive, then run hda-diskmount. That will give it a home with the other shares and drives.

This may help as well.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/HowTo_use_USB_disks

The wiki is our primary repository of info. Always a good idea to look there when you have issues as often there is someone else who has had the same one and posted a solution.
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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby AmahiFJK » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:48 pm

Okily dokily

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Re: can't access drive after reinstalling ubuntu

Postby AmahiFJK » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:58 am

I copied the files over to Windows and formatted the old drive as NTFS. I then connected it via a USB dock. It shows up in DiskUtilit in Linux. I reformatted it as NTFS to be sure it was accessible to Linux. Everything works. No Terminal fiddling required

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