On 17/05/10 07:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, people. This is a preventative question, since it hasn't happened > yet. I have an external hard drive connected to my computer by USB. > Unlike the computer it does not have battery power to fall back on if > mains power is interrupted. I always unmount the hard drive by > right-clicking on its desktop icon and selecting 'unmount' before > powering down, otherwise when I next connect it it will be unable to > mount properly. What I would like to know in advance is how to restore > it to mountable condition if if this ever happens. Thanks. > >
Do you know what format the drive is in? FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, EXT4? If you haven't formatted the drive since you got it (for instance if it was pre-formatted) then you might find it's NTFS or FAT32. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
