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Seagate FreeAgent ext. 320GB "won't mount"

Asked by rab_random

I seem to remember that this is an ongoing problem for a few months now. It worked a few months ago and now after trying it again- it doesn't... I've tried all the basics: Reboot a few times in various ways, unplugging the drive, reinserting the usb and mains plug in different combinations.
When I plug it in, There is a pop up dialog box which states that it cannot mount and suggests that I "force mount" it and asks if I am using windows and if so, I need to login to windows and "eject" the drive. I DO NOT have windows. Although I did last time I used the drive.

Seagate FreeAgent external Hard Drive 320GB

Ubuntu 7.10 (Ultimate Build)

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#1

If the drive is NTFS(which I assume from what you are saying), then you should be able to mount the drive by doing:-

1) Make a folder in /media using:-

sudo mkdir /media/force

2) Mount the hard drive onto the new folder using:-

sudo ntfs-3g /dev/path-of-drive /media/force -o force

You can obtain the path of drive using:-

sudo fdisk -l

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

May be your removable disk filesystem is in a bad state ( have you unplugged the disk from windows pc without deactivate first...? ) or it have errors, please make a full disk check from some Win pc...

This may help you: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=545489

Hope this helps

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