Can't mount my harddrive (Solved)

[rubiks]

I try to mount my harddrive to my Rpi as a shared drive.

I can see my harddrive under

lsusb

but I can't see it under

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sudo fdisk -l

Please help.

My western digital is portable drive power through pi's usb and I have changed the /boot/config.txt with

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max_usb_current=1

Harddrive format NTFS and installed

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sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Solved: not enough power to powered the external drive.

[Dorian_WD]

Hey rubiks,

How is the hard drive formatted and can you share the exact model of the HDD as well as its capacity? You can check this topic for some ideas: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=69565

Regards,
Dorian_WD

[rpdom]

What does the lsusb show for your hard drive? It might be that the adaptor is not supported.

Also, the output from dmesg can be useful. Plug your drive in to the Pi, wait about 3-4 seconds, then do "dmesg | tail -20" then post the results of that.