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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Thanks for those nice comments Condobloke. Yeah, I sure think there's no better place to be than Australia. Located close to the Gold Coast, with lovely warm weather year round. I'll look into your suggestion for a hard drive from Amazon. Thanks for the advise.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Hi again Alexzee. The site that you mention looks pretty good, but I'm located in Australia and by the time you convert $US to $AUS and also take into account the huge postage costs for US to AUS, the whole thing is uneconomic. Thanks for that info though - much appreciated.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Hi Lord Boltar. Thanks for that valuable info. Unfortunately I can't get off the ground as the device does not show up in "Files" or in any Recovery programs that I found using Win 10. It appears that I'm back to my original verdict that the drive is stuffed, unless anyone can advise me of...
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Hi again guys. I followed Alexzee's advice and attempted to format the drive to NFTS, using a formatting tool that I had on Win 10. Don't know why but the whole drive became unreadable in any of the normal formatting tools (I tried 3 altogether) and it appears that the drive is stuffed. No...
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    I cannot determine the brand name Alexzee. It's not branded and is one that I bought online.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    $ sudo dmesg | tail [sudo] password for john: [111170.706414] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#2 uas_zap_pending 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD [111170.706421] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#2 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 02 00 [111170.838221] usb 2-2: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 15...
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Thanks for that further advise Alexzee. I will try both of those formats and will check out S.M.A.R.T. Please remember though, I can only format in Win.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    I assume that you're referring to the non-functioning drive Alexzee? It has a few photos that I added as a test. Just another thing, it is a brand new device that I have just purchased and has never worked in Linux Mint. I have also tried it in Ubuntu - same problem.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Just another aside, I have formatted other external hard drives to fat32 previously, using files and all have functioned perfectly in Mint.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Unfortunately, no it doesn't.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    Thank you all for all of your help so far. Much appreciated. Once plugged in, the laptop makes all of the right sounds that it should make when an external hard drive is plugged in, but the device fails to show up in "Files" or "Disks". Just to clear up what happens with Gparted, once plugged...
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    I have tried Gparted. Once the drive is plugged in, gparted recognizes that there is another device there, but just keeps going on and on without ever getting anywhere.
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    I'm running Linux Mint 20.2. My PC is Acer Swift 3. When it could not be recognized in Mint I formatted it to fat32, hoping that might be recognizable. I have other hard drives which work perfectly in Windows or Linux,
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    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux

    external hard drive works in windows 10 but wont work in linux
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