External Hard Drive neither recognized nor possible to format it
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I wanted to encrypt my external hard drive. With "Disks" I chose "Format Partition". Because I had around 500GB of data on it, I let it run over the night. But that morning, it still didn't finish. So in my impatientness, I just unplugged the external hard drive and the I deleted all the partitions on it. Now, I'm left with one partition (Free Space - 1GB) and I can't chose "Format Partition" anymore, nor does the external hard drive show up in nautilus...
Can anyone help me solving the problem?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
I think I need to reset the external hard drive comlpetely. If I want to create a new partition on it it says: "Error on creating partition on /dev/sdb: Failed to meet partition size on device '/dev/sdb' (usdisks-error-quark, 0)"
partitioning hard-drive
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
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I wanted to encrypt my external hard drive. With "Disks" I chose "Format Partition". Because I had around 500GB of data on it, I let it run over the night. But that morning, it still didn't finish. So in my impatientness, I just unplugged the external hard drive and the I deleted all the partitions on it. Now, I'm left with one partition (Free Space - 1GB) and I can't chose "Format Partition" anymore, nor does the external hard drive show up in nautilus...
Can anyone help me solving the problem?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
I think I need to reset the external hard drive comlpetely. If I want to create a new partition on it it says: "Error on creating partition on /dev/sdb: Failed to meet partition size on device '/dev/sdb' (usdisks-error-quark, 0)"
partitioning hard-drive
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can usingdd.
– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50
add a comment |
I wanted to encrypt my external hard drive. With "Disks" I chose "Format Partition". Because I had around 500GB of data on it, I let it run over the night. But that morning, it still didn't finish. So in my impatientness, I just unplugged the external hard drive and the I deleted all the partitions on it. Now, I'm left with one partition (Free Space - 1GB) and I can't chose "Format Partition" anymore, nor does the external hard drive show up in nautilus...
Can anyone help me solving the problem?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
I think I need to reset the external hard drive comlpetely. If I want to create a new partition on it it says: "Error on creating partition on /dev/sdb: Failed to meet partition size on device '/dev/sdb' (usdisks-error-quark, 0)"
partitioning hard-drive
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
I wanted to encrypt my external hard drive. With "Disks" I chose "Format Partition". Because I had around 500GB of data on it, I let it run over the night. But that morning, it still didn't finish. So in my impatientness, I just unplugged the external hard drive and the I deleted all the partitions on it. Now, I'm left with one partition (Free Space - 1GB) and I can't chose "Format Partition" anymore, nor does the external hard drive show up in nautilus...
Can anyone help me solving the problem?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
I think I need to reset the external hard drive comlpetely. If I want to create a new partition on it it says: "Error on creating partition on /dev/sdb: Failed to meet partition size on device '/dev/sdb' (usdisks-error-quark, 0)"
partitioning hard-drive
partitioning hard-drive
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
edited Mar 26 at 6:49
LJag
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
133
asked Mar 26 at 6:28
LJagLJag
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You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can usingdd.
– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50
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You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can usingdd.
– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50
You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can using
dd.– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can using
dd.– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50
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You can try zeroing the drive, see if it help. I once restored a usb flash drive I found on garbage can using
dd.– Emmet
Mar 26 at 7:04
try re-creating the partition table. I just made a similar answer : askubuntu.com/a/1128785/307184 , tell me if that helps.
– tatsu
Mar 26 at 10:22
Thanks @Emmet, zeroing the drive worked for me!
– LJag
Mar 27 at 15:50