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I cannot manage the files in my external WD hard disk drive

Asked by Jason Foster

I installed linux ubuntu in my laptop and used my external WD hard disk fine...then for about a month I had to work on Windows XP, when i put the external hard disk on linux again, I could not manage(create, delete,copy etc) any file that was in the external hard disk...what can I do???

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

Most of the time when external drives that previously worked in linux and then do not work after using windows is caused by improper shutdown in windows. Simplest thing to do is to go back to windows and disconnected the drive using the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray, and then cleanly shut down windows.

If this does not solve your problem, then with the drive connected open a terminal from menu Application-> Accessories-> Terminal and type these commands and paste the output here

sudo fdisk -l
sudo mount

Hope this helps

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

If unmounting the drive with the Safely Remove Hardware Icon allowed you access to you external drive in Ubuntu, please mark this question as solved. If not please provide a more exhaustive examination of your problems/errors and we can provide better support.

Thank you

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