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Asked: 2015-02-17 14:09:28 +0800 CST

Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/ on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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How I can fix the Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/... It works pretty good in the past but I made a clean installed of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and the Error mounting coming. I try to fix it with with Gparted, ntfs-3g, pmount, but this programs can't find the external HDD. But when I boot put the USB drive with Ubuntu 14.04 on test mode this can find and read my external HDD. How I can fix it?

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5 Answers

  1. open terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and run

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
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  2. Run this command to show disks:

    lsblk

    Run this command to mount usb:

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb

    /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 or some other path

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  3. It might be the case that the naming changes when you try the drive on different things. ( sdb becomes sdX because of how the usbs are enumerated) Open a terminal and play with:

    lsblk
blkid

    If you are still unsure, then try 

    dmesg | more

    and read the system log, at one point you should see something similar to:

    150289.144120] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WDC WD32 00BEKT-22KA9T0   01.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[150289.144951] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[150289.145185] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[150289.145854] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[150289.145863] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[150289.146547] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found
[150289.146555] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[150289.212988]  sdd: sdd4
[150289.215143] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk

    If not, then try different usb ports, some usb are full powered, some half powered, some mother board don't like usb3 devices on usb2 slots..

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  4. I got the same error, but in my case, it wasn't because of a corrupted NTFS, but because Ubuntu didn't recognize that the disk was formatted as exFAT. I could open the disk with no problem in Windows. Then I checked the format and saw that it was exFAT. To open it in Linux I installed:

    $ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

    And the disk could open without any issue.

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  5. I used this ntfsfix package to check my external drive

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb

    But in some case this /dev/sdb can be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2

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