Cannot open external hard drive in file system

rk619

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I have my external hard drive which have opened earlier in my linux mint laptop. I have transferred files also earlier. But now I can see it, click on it but it does not open at all. Please help.
 


G'day rk, Welcome to Linux.org

Were you transferring files to the external....or from the external to some other place?

Have you rebooted?

How did you go about opening it before?.....
 
I have been transferring file from and to external hard drive before.
Yes. I have tried with rebooting, reconnecting hard drive. It did not work.
I have been opening it from file manager only. Just click on it to view contents.

Basically I can see hard drive name in my filer manager. I can also eject it. But if I click on it nothing happens. No error. Nothing.
 
Is the hard drive full ?....have you checked?

If you right click on a file, can you send it to that hard drive?
 
No way it is full. It is 2TB hard disk. I have 200Gb data in it so far.

No. If I right click on a file I cannot see hard drive in moveto or copyto options.
 
try right click and unmount the hard drive....then reboot and plug it back in after the reboot

click on menu and type in disks......click on the ext hard drive there.....just below the hard drive there is an icon like...
Screenshot from 2021-03-01 19-52-59.png
....the little gear wheel on the right hand side of the pic....click on it....go down to Edit mount options'....you should see...
blurb.png


Is that what you see ?
 
Click on 'Mount'
 

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