Difficulty Mounting Volumes on a Partitioned External HD
- by Todd
I'm having a great deal of difficulty with an external hard drive. I'm currently running a dual boot system (XP Service Pack 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl) on a Dell Inspiron B120.
I'm trying to set up a new 80 GB Hitachi external HD. Using GParted, I formatted the drive and set up the partitions. The partitioning scheme is as follows
10GB NTFS Primary,
2GB Linux-Swap Primary,
50GB FAT32 Primary,
12GB Unallocated.
After applying those changes, I went into Disk Utility and the HD appears along with the correct partitions. When I try to mount the volumes for partitions 1 and 3, I get a pop-up stating:
Error Mounting Volume
An error occurred while performing an operation on "Home"
(Partition 3 of HTS548080m9AT00): The daemon is being inhibited.
When I try to to check the filesystem I get a pop-up stating:
Error Checking filesystem on volume
An error occurred while performing an operation on "Home"
(Partition 3 of HTS548080m9AT00): The daemon is being inhibited.
Throughout the time that I'm attempting to troubleshoot the problem, the external drive light is on and blinking. With my frustration hitting a boiling point, I try to shut down the drive and remove it so that I can plug in a different external HD that works PERFECTLY.
However, when I try to shut down and safely remove the drive, I get a pop-up stating:
Error Detaching Drive
An error occurred while performing an operation on "80GB Hard Disk"
(HTS548080m9AT00): The daemon is being inhibited.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm a newbie and not that skilled with terminal commands, so please dumb it down for me if you request specific command output.
