Unable to mount portable hard drive on Ubuntu
- by VoY
My portable hard drive (WD My Passport), which used to work correctly now does not automount on my Ubuntu system. It does work on a Windows machine or even when plugged into WD HD TV, which is a Linux based device. There's one NTFS partition spanning the whole drive.
When I plug the disk in, I see the following in dmesg:
[269259.504631] usb 1-2.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 20
[269259.604674] usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
However it does not mount in GNOME and I don't see it when I type:
sudo fdisk -l
Any suggestions why this might be? I repaired the partition using chkdsk on Windows, so the issue is probably not filesystem related.