[SOLVED] Problem with WD MyBook :cry:

[il capitano ~ 3]

hi guys
i am a new linux user and i have a problem with my wd mybook it is not recognized on linux and i have a lot of important data on it that i saved from my old windows laptop.Can anybody explain to me how to get it to work on linux ubuntu OS.
this is the one i have
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1/WDMybook.jpg

[bigtomrodney]

WD MyBooks generally work fine, they are just a general mass storage device. Even if it's formatted as NTFS from Windows I'd expect something. What version of Ubuntu are you using? Try opening a terminal and running this command, posting back any output

sudo fdisk -l

(That's a lowercase L)

[jmadero]

open terminal, post result from doing this:

sudo fdisk -l

[il capitano ~ 3]

i am using version 8.04
thats what i got


Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3647 29294496 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 3648 7296 29310592+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8d399bc0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60800 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[bigtomrodney]

Well, it looks like it is seeing it anyway

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60800 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Try running this command directly after plugging it in

dmesg |tail

Post back the output so we can see what's happening as it's detected. After that you might want to search the logs to see any errors. Here's a quick command to do it for you

sudo grep -ir sdb1 /var/log/*

[il capitano ~ 3]

thats what i got

dmesg |tail
[ 3496.907122] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 3496.907130] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3496.915649] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
[ 3496.916768] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3496.916777] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 3496.916783] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3496.916792] sdb: sdb1
[ 3496.924791] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3496.924887] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 3544.766518] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, address 4


the problem is when i plug it in and it loads.... a message appears "cannot mount volume" what does that mean.i tried another small memory stick and it worked but the mybook still doesn't

[jmadero]

this is just a permissions problem. Do the following:

sudo mkdir /media/mybook

sudo chmod 777 /media/mybook

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

bottom of the text file write the following


/dev/sdb1 /media/mybook ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0

log out and log back in, should work no problem. This is mounting the drive to /media/mybook, if you wanted it somewhere else just make the changes to where the mybook is above.

[il capitano ~ 3]

this is just a permissions problem. Do the following:

sudo mkdir /media/mybook

sudo chmod 777 /media/mybook

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

bottom of the text file write the following


/dev/sdb1 /media/mybook ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0

log out and log back in, should work no problem. This is mounting the drive to /media/mybook, if you wanted it somewhere else just make the changes to where the mybook is above.

i followed the steps and i got this message " you are not privileged to mount the volume 'mybook' ".

[oz]

i followed the steps and i got this message " you are not privileged to mount the volume 'mybook' ".

Try it like this and see if it works:

/dev/sdb1     /media/mybook  ntfs     user,rw,umask=000     0     0

[devils casper]

To enable NTFS write access, one must add this code in /etc/fstab :

/dev/sdb1     /media/mybook   ntfs-3g   defaults,umask=0   0   0