External Hard drive problem

[John K Masters]

On 13:20 Mon 05 May     , Karl Larsen wrote:
>     Hard to tell what happened to your hard drive. Assume the drive is 
> fine but the format is ruined. Do this:
> 
> 1. Plug in the external hard drive and find out what it's address is on 
> your computer. On mine it is /media/drive/, but may be anything on 
> yours. When you get the proper address write it down.
> 
> 2. Now you need to dis-mount the external and that is done by right 
> clicking the image on the desktop.
> 
> 
> 3. Now do this in a terminal:
> 
> $ sudo mkfs.ext3 /media/drive
> 
> It will complete and should say it was successful.
> 
> Now you can use it again.
> 
>     If the HD is broken get a new one and do 1.,2.,3. on it.
> 
> Karl
> 
Karl, if you wish to help please read the previous postings. We have
already established that the drive cannot be read when connected to the
computer.

Regards, John
-- 
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