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[ubuntu] USB hard drive is not recognized.

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http://ubuntuforums.org – My Thinkpad T510 laptop can't see or recognize my USB 1.5 TB Toshiba hard drive. It worked fine till yesterday. I have Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 installed on different partitions, and even Windows 7 can't see the drive. Strange thing is, that it works with 3 of my other computers at home. One of them running Windows 7, one Ubuntu and one Lubuntu. You just plug it in and it works. I wasn't doing nothing special like updating or installing something when it happend. Tried to run lsusb, fdisk -l and there is no sign that drive is connected even when it is. Disc utility or Gparted can't see it ei (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 10/07/2012

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