Click on hard drive won't open hard drive

Asked by Gordon Murray

I'd click on an internal hard drive in locations and it would say it couldn't recognise the file type and it asked me what software I wanted to use the open the drive. I accidentally chose diagnostics, so now every time I click on internal drives to mount them it doesn't open the drive in the file manager, it opens the diagnostics section in ubuntu settings. How do I get the drives to open in nautilus?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of:

sudo parted -l; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

https://www.howtogeek.com/117709/how-to-change-your-default-applications-on-ubuntu-4-ways/

This should help change the default application

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Gordon Murray (gordon-n-murray) said :
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sudo parted -l; lsb_release -a; uname -a
Model: ATA Samsung SSD 860 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 473MB 472MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
 2 473MB 578MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
 3 578MB 595MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
 4 595MB 1000GB 999GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
 5 1000GB 1000GB 573MB ntfs hidden, diag

Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB ntfs msftdata

Model: ATA Samsung SSD 860 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
 2 538MB 1000GB 1000GB ext4

Model: WD My Passport 0748 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary

Model: Kingston DT Ultimate G3 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 62.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 62.9GB 62.9GB primary fat32 boot, lba

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
Linux Ubuntu 5.4.0-37-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 3 18:57:02 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

That's the output but the link you sent me doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. I need to get the internal drives to open with nautilus rather than open the diagnostics location when clicked on.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

So its not under the system settings in this section
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/image397.png

no?

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Gordon Murray (gordon-n-murray) said :
#4

Nope. I'm using ubuntu 20.04.

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Gordon Murray (gordon-n-murray) said :
#5

Do you understand what's happening cause when I explain it to people they don't?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#6

If you install dconf-editor does the setting live in the same place
https://askubuntu.com/questions/191527/disable-auto-opening-nautilus-window-after-auto-mount

Or gnome-tweak? Does that help?

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