Yes. Windows will not recognize it and may offer to let you format it. In worst case, you may need to use Drive Management to remove partitions first. If needed, just Google for info. The drive is basically formatted for Linux, so info on that should help.
Check to see its is listed as a usb device the command is lsusb
Check to see if its partitions are identified the command is ls -al /dev/disk/by-id
See if its mounted the command is df -h
If its sees as a usb device and the partitions are there but it is not mounted mount it.
sudo mkdir /mnt/tablo
sudo mount /dev/sdxn /mnt/tablo
Where sdxn is the device identified in the /dev/disk/by-id device list. Like sda1 or sdb1 etc.
@needahand
First, before you do anything, tell us what are you planning to do with the disk ?
Think of a command as a program you want to run.
It seems you have very limited knowledge of Linux and you may end up doing more harm than good.
Linux commands can be dangerous.
Not knowing what a command is, I can only assume you have a graphical desktop.
In light of that, and with reference to what @andersonas25 said, you would need to open a Terminal window as the first step.
Tell us more of what your goal is here and we can guide you if we can.
I can’t guarantee you won’t hose something up, since you have limited Linux knowledge.
First notes: Linux commands are typed in all lower case.
I will use <> to represent where you have to substitute appropriate text. i.e. you replace with /dev/sdb1 for example.
Here are the steps.
Open a Terminal window.
Type blkid That will show you the current disks on the computer.
Plug in the disk with the files on it, then type blkid again
You should see and addition disk. Make note of it as that will be the disk
Plug in the new disk that you want to write to, then type blkid again.
Again you should see an addition disk listed. Make note of it as that will be the disk
Issue the df -h command
When you get that done, post the output of the last blkid command and the df -h command here.
What kind of computer is that?
What Linux operation system is that?
How many disk drives in it?
The only thing that I see looks like a disk drive is /dev/sdb1 and it is mounted and it is mounted (made available to use) at /media/New Volume
Right under the line that starts with /dev/root.old what does the first part say?
All I can read is /dev/. Can’t make out the letters after the /
Kinda looks like stm
That should be where your operating system resides but it is only 3.9G with very little used.
I’m at a loss with that.
Another command you could try is lsblk.
Type clear, then lsblk
Do you have any way to capture just a portion of the screen?
I am using an HP pavilion with the Linux Xfce on a PNY 32 gig USB thumb drive.
There are four drives in the PC plus the Linux thumb drive and the source drive for the transfer files and the destination drive for the transfer files. So all total there should be 7 drives showing. /dev/shm is the line you were looking at.
That looks better.
So I see a 500G drive (sda) with 4 partitions. I guess that is what you were calling 4 internal drives.
sdb is another 500G disk.
Looks like sdd (32G) is your operating system usb stick.
I assume sde and sdf are the source and destination drives, 1TB ea.
So you have 5 disks now two 500G internal, the 32G stick and two 1TB external.
I am not sure why none of them list a mountpoint.
Next step is get the 1TB drives ready to mount. You may need to put sudo in front of mkdir if you get an error. mkdir /media/source mkdir /media/destination mount /dev/sde1 /media/source mount /dev/sdf1 /media/destination
Now you should be able to do the df -h command and the disks should show up.
