[1dj]

System Specs

Operating System – Linux Lite	Linux Lite 8.0
CPU / Processor	Intel(R) N200
Memory (RAM)	4 GB
Storage	Hard Drive (HDD)
Graphics (GPU)	Intel UHD Graphics
Network device	Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller [1T1R]

My external hard drive is not mounting due to an error, "Failed to mount "Xbox Seagate Hard Drive". Error mounting /dev/sdb at /run/media/dj/Xbox Seagate Hard Drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error."

I tried on the latest antiX live boot too and it didnt mount there either.
it was able to mount the last time i used it on Linux Mint XFCE (yesterday)
it isnt showing up in File manager on Windows 11

i would appreciate if someone could help

[stevef]

There can be interoperability problems with windows disks connected to Linux systems, however, with the limited information supplied, it may be that the disk has failed.  What is the make/model ?
Is the W11 system the one used to set the drive up originally ?
If not, try the external drive on whatever system you originally used to format it and see if it works there.

With the external disk connected to Linux Lite, open a terminal by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T together.
To get some information about how the system sees the disk, type or paste in the following commands followed by Enter.  Enter your password if asked.

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Code:

lsblk -f

Post back the results.

[1dj]

There can be interoperability problems with windows disks connected to Linux systems, however, with the limited information supplied, it may be that the disk has failed.  What is the make/model ?
Is the W11 system the one used to set the drive up originally ?
If not, try the external drive on whatever system you originally used to format it and see if it works there.

With the external disk connected to Linux Lite, open a terminal by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T together.
To get some information about how the system sees the disk, type or paste in the following commands followed by Enter.  Enter your password if asked.

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Code:

lsblk -f

Post back the results.

im sorry i dont know what W11 systems are, but this is a 2TB Seagate Xbox SSD 

when i tried sudo fdisk -l, i got this

Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 127984992256 bytes, 31246336 sectors
Disk model: SDINFEO4-128G 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B765787A-30CA-4AED-9AC0-7BEBEC4DEA3D

Device        Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1      512  131583  131072  512M EFI System
/dev/sda2    131584 29235704 29104121  111G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  29235705 31246269  2010565  7.7G Linux swap


Disk /dev/sdb: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors
Disk model: Game Drive Xbox
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 09827DB7-80D5-42A4-8849-4EBCDA7D73E4

Device    Start  End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1    34 32767  32734  16M Microsoft reserved

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.


when i tried lsblk -r, i got this 

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 119.2G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
sda2 8:2 0 111G 0 part /
sda3 8:3 0 7.7G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 16M 0 part
zram0 252:0 0 0B 0 disk


i tried using it on Xbox just now (the device the hard drive was formatted on) and it didnt get recognized

thank you