[PLUG] Accessing external drive in Mint

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Sat Oct 26 01:07:22 UTC 2019


On 10/25/19 5:55 PM, Michael Barnes wrote:
> I have a computer that suffered a hardware failure. I replaced it with a
> 'new' unit from Free Geek running Mint. I pulled the hard drive and need to
> try to recover some data from it. I have an external drive adapter that
> plugs into a USB port.
> 
> Previously, (assuming I remember correctly) I simply hooked up the drive to
> the adapter and plugged it into the USB port and it showed up as sdb and I
> was able to transfer data as needed.
> 
> This time, nothing shows up. So, either I cannot remember how it shows up
> or I am doing something wrong (both likely). I tried a couple of other
> drives that I had previously hooked up with similar results.
> I have tried parted -l, fdisk -l, lsblk -a, and looked at /dev with no good
> results.
I would first confirm that the USB adapter is showing up.  See whether 
it is present in the output of the lsusb command.

galen
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