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iomega select 320gb portable drive not recognised

Asked by John-e-gore

I have purchased an IOMEGA select 320 portable USB hard drive which the system fails to recognise. I think it is formatted differently , How can I re-format this drive?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Ubuntu should recognize USB disk. It supports FAT32, NTFS and HFS (Mac).
Could you plug disk, run command "lsusb" and check if disk is in the list displayed.

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John-e-gore (john-e-gore) said : 		#2

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 18:32 +0000, delance wrote:
> lsusb
 Yes did that it shows up! What now? Thanks

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John-e-gore (john-e-gore) said : 		#3

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 18:33 +0000, delance wrote:
> Your question #150057 on util-linux in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+question/150057
>
> Project: Ubuntu => util-linux in Ubuntu
> Problem solved drive now recognised. thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

as well as the output of:

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

Thanks

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

Could you plug USB drive and provide partition table.
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Please provide partition table.

Open a terminal: you can either press Ctrl+Alt+T or Applications->Accessories->Terminal.

To copy/paste in a terminal, replace Ctrl+C by Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+V by Ctrl+Shift+V (for historical reason, Ctrl+C is assigned another function).

Paste to terminal the following commands:

    sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is lower case "L".

Copy/paste result into a new thread post.

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John-e-gore (john-e-gore) said : 		#6

All problems solved thanks for all your help

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John-e-gore (john-e-gore) said : 		#7

Problem solved thank you.