Finding Hardware

[sdcougar]

Where do I find something comparable to "My Computer" in windows, where I can see what drives are recognized? I cannot find external back up.

[klaus2008]

You can see the drives and partitions found by Knoppix if you open an LXTerminal and issue
fdisk -l If you issue
mount then you should see which partitions have already been mounted. There is also an program hwinfo which gives detailed information about the system. You can issue
hwinfo --help to see the program's options.

[utu]

@sdcougar

If I understand your question, another alternative
is to click on the PCManFM icon on the task bar
or select file manager from Main menu/preferences.

The left panel of PCManFM, the file manager, shows
most, if not all mounted or mountable media.
Those not mounted mount with a single click.

NTSF volumes show up as 'OS'. Careful mounting these,
since writes to NTSF are hazardous.

If your 'external backup' is a usb device, I would expect
it to show up. You might have to plug & unplug to get
it recognized.