new user - need help

**Markus** · 12-20-2004, 10:29 PM

Can't say. Which modules are loaded? The output of lsmod ?
Also have a look at dmesg just after you plug the drive in.

**firebyrd10** · 12-21-2004, 02:02 AM

Oh, then that drive needs to be partitoned to use.

Try sudo qtparted with it plugged in.

*ugg, my spelling is really going downhill.*

**jatt** · 12-21-2004, 07:27 AM

thanks everyone for the help posted so far. here is the update. i went ahead and pulled my laptop hard drive out. i tried to buy a converter from laptop harddrive to desktop. instead the guy sold me this

he said i could just move the files. it worked for some files and not for others. the files that transferred were the ones in my shared directory. the ones that didnt transfer were within my documents folder.

im trying this program get data back to recover those files. hopefully this nightmare will be over soon.

i really like this mobile disk. god forbid anything like this to happen again i will keep it around. it makes my laptop hard drive like an external harddrive. it sits in the case and data transfers via usb 2.0

**Markus** · 12-21-2004, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by firebyrd10

Oh, then that dirve needs to be partitoned to use.

Try sudo qtparted with it plugged in.

Having never used an unpartitioned usbdisk, doesn't it say anything in dmesg when you plug it in?

Originally Posted by jatt

thanks everyone for the help posted so far. here is the update. i went ahead and pulled my laptop hard drive out. i tried to buy a converter from laptop harddrive to desktop. instead the guy sold me this he said i could just move the files. it worked for some files and not for others. the files that transferred were the ones in my shared directory. the ones that didnt transfer were within my documents folder.

Heh, they often try to sell you something different from what you're asking.
What are you using to transfer, windows? Then it's a permission thing and you might still want to try knoppix unless you're copying to an NTFS disk.

**jatt** · 12-22-2004, 08:34 AM

the system im trying to copy to is ntfs. i dl'd this other program called get data back. that helped me retrieve my entire hard drive. i think im good now. im just going to format my entire drive and start from scratch.