external hdd problems on Kubuntu 7.04

Thanks for the question.

Have you tried to go to the Disk Management in the System Settings?

You get there by opening System Settings via KMenu->System Settings. Then you need to change to the Advanced tab. Under System Administration is Disks & Filesystems. You then have to click on the Administrator Mode button and enter your login password.

You should now be able to select the partition you wish to use and click the button enable in order to mount it.

If it doesn't work, could you please be more specific what happens. Do you get any error messages? Can you look in /var/log/dmesg if there are any relevant error messages.

I hope this helps.

I attempted to do that, and I think that may be part of my problem - I may have told it to mount to the wrong place? Also, now when I insert the USB I sometimes get the error message "Unable to enter file:///proc. You do not have access rights to this location." instead of just nothing happening.

Also, in my disk and file systems window it says: "The module DIsk & Filesystems could not be loaded. The diagnostics is: Possible Reasons: *AN error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module *you have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error messages. If this fails consider contacting your distributor or packager."

I was having this problem before this message showed up, though.

There's a fair amount of stuff in my /var/log/dmesg so I won't copy and paste it, but there isn't anything easily decipherable as being related to my current problem.

Which KDE version do you have? (You can check this through Help->About KDE on a Konqueror window or

dpkg-query -l kdesktop

inside a commandline terminal

Hi!,

I'm interested in this answer too, as I got this same behaviour.

I have two external hard drives, one (250Gb) works perfectly, the other one, when I connect it I got the window that asks me what to do, then I click in open in another window, but nothing happens. If I go to check the device System settings>Advance Tab>Disk and Filesystems the hd is ther under "/dev/sdc1" but when I selected the partition only the "New..." button is active, my KDE is v3.5.6.

I have also tried to system menu>Storage media and there click on the hard disk, I got the message "Error - ko_media_mounthelper -> hal-storage-removable-mount-all-options refused uid 1000"

A would really appreciate some help, Thanxs !

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