Hi there.
Since a couple of years (+2 easy), I was using more than fine, a WD Elements Portable 1TB.
From nothing, it stopped from showing on my notebook. The only noticeable change was, I had to bought a new cable because the old one was loosy (I have to bend it somehow in order to connect properly).
From this point, I have made different tests on different OS (Windows and Ubuntu)
Ubuntu
This is the output of fdisk -l
I reckon that the sdb1 it’s for the external disk
Disk /dev/sda: 149,1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x8194093d
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 304390143 304388096 145,1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 304392190 312580095 8187906 3,9G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 304392192 312580095 8187904 3,9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 931,5 GiB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00023f15 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 2048 1953458175 1953456128 931,5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I’ve already try in all 3 usb ports The External HDD light blinks makes “a work like” sound Reboot laptop, but nothing
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 149,1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 145,1G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 3,9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 931,5G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 931,5G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sudo mount -t exFAT /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type ‘exFAT’
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x44414142 size: 1024
usa_ofs: 8572 usa_count: 29550: Invalid argument
Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x44414142)
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdb1’: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the ‘dmraid’ documentation
for more details.
unplugged disk
ls /dev/ | grep sd
sda
sda1
sda2
sda5
plugged disk
ls /dev/ | grep sd
sda
sda1
sda2
sda5
sdb
sdb1
Windows
It is recognized by the OS; and if the driver is not installed it will installed.
From My Computer, it is shown that a Disk is attached but it does not show any space usage.
Also, I can not defrag or scan check, and it suggests that I have to format the disk
From Device Manager the disk is shown ok without any warnings or errors
In both scenarios, the white led from the disk it’s on and it blinks when “it works” and you can hear slightly how the disk is working.
Any help?
regards!
