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[ubuntu] cannot mount or see external hard drive

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http://ubuntuforums.org – i have a fat32 formatted western digital mybook 1TB external hard drive, relatively new (i've been using it about a month now) which i can no longer see in nautilus nor via fdisk -l. it's just gone. i got one error that said it couldn't mount the volume, and then it vanished. it does not reappear after rebooting. i booted in my windows partition, and it decided it was an 'unrecognisable usb device.' is it hopeless? (Hardware)

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