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With Mageia 2 I had no problems accessing my Maxtor external HDD. Now, after upgrading to Mageia 3, I cannot access it. In MCC it shows that the drive has been mounted but when I check the 'Media' folder where I would expect to see it (as with Mageia 2) it doesn't appear. I am not technical but just a user so any help would be apreciated.

Many thanks.

open a terminal

and run

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df -k

su -
passwd:rootpasswd

fdisk -l


now tie up the harddisk from the fdisk -l output with the df -k and you will see where it is mounted

if you need further help, post back here what you find.

regards peter

Hello Peter

This is what I get:-

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[paulbrennan@localhost ~]$ df -k
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs          12264904  5245828   6389380  46% /
devtmpfs         1020432        0   1020432   0% /dev
tmpfs            1026160        0   1026160   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs            1026160      668   1025492   1% /run
/dev/sda1       12264904  5245828   6389380  46% /
tmpfs            1026160        0   1026160   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs            1026160       16   1026144   1% /tmp
/dev/sda6      223809788 19010216 204799572   9% /home

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[paulbrennan@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcd43cd43

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    25189919    12593936   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        25192440   488392064   231599812+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5        25192448    33367004     4087278+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        33370112   488392064   227510976+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300090728448 bytes, 586114704 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2587ccf0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   586114703   293057320+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2   *           0           0           0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb3   *           0           0           0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4   *           0           0           0    0  Empty

I can't a see tie up, can you?

Many thanks,

Paul