Unable to mount my 2nd hard drive after ubuntu installation

Amir

12/28/23, 10:23 AM

i just did a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04 on my ssd. i have a HDD that i want to use for storage but it's not being recognized. i tried to mount it accorrding to How do I access other drives? but it didn't work. any ideas on what's going wrong here? the strange thing is that mount works on sdb5 and sdb6 but not on sdb7. if at all possible i'd like to avoid formatting my HDD.

amir@amir-Lenovo:~$ sudo lsblk -o model,name,size,fstype,label,mountpoint
[sudo] password for amir: 
MODEL            NAME     SIZE FSTYPE  LABEL    MOUNTPOINT
                 loop0     62M squashf          /snap/core20/1587
                 loop1      4K squashf          /snap/bare/5
                 loop2  163.3M squashf          /snap/firefox/1635
                 loop3  400.8M squashf          /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
                 loop4   91.7M squashf          /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
                 loop5   45.9M squashf          /snap/snap-store/582
                 loop6     47M squashf          /snap/snapd/16292
                 loop7    284K squashf          /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/
ADATA SU650      sda    447.1G                  
                 ├─sda1   7.6G swap             [SWAP]
                 ├─sda2  23.3G ext4             /
                 ├─sda3 401.3G ext4             /home
                 ├─sda4   488M ext4             /boot
                 ├─sda5   8.4G ext4             /var
                 ├─sda6     6G ext4             /tmp
                 └─sda7     7M                  
ST2000LM007-1R81 sdb      1.8T                  
                 ├─sdb1   450M ntfs    Recovery 
                 ├─sdb2   100M vfat             /boot/efi
                 ├─sdb3     1M                  
                 ├─sdb4    15M                  
                 ├─sdb5 291.6G ntfs             /media/amir/8210114210113E9B
                 ├─sdb6   841M ntfs             
                 └─sdb7   1.5T                  
amir@amir-Lenovo:~$ mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/2TB
mount: /mnt/2TB: must be superuser to use mount.
amir@amir-Lenovo:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/2TB
amir@amir-Lenovo:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt/HDD/
mount: /mnt/HDD: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb7, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

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Pilot6

12/28/23, 10:41 AM

The sdb7 partition is not formatted to any file system. You can format it, then it will mount.

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Amir

12/28/23, 10:49 AM

sdb7 should actually be 2 partitions. that was 2 of my drives on my previous OS (windows). i don't know why they're shown as one partition here and they had a lot of data i'd prefer not to lose.

Pilot6

12/28/23, 11:01 AM

You probably removed those partitions. Also maybe there are some partitions that are encrypted, etc.

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user14222699

12/31/23, 10:36 PM

Make sure that first you install ntfs-3g and fuse.

sudo apt install fuse ntfs-3g

Then, use sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb7 /mnt/hdd/ and make sure there is a folder named hdd in mnt and also there is a filesytem for the drive by doing the following, sample command

sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb7

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