Help! External HDD and CD-R not being read by Kubuntu

[Chaar]

Hello once again everyone! I am proud to say that I at last have Kubuntu running! But there is a huge problem: the two external HDDs (a 150GB Maxtor and a Creative Zen Microphoto) aren't working. I cannot see any files on my Maxtor HDD, but I can see the sub folders in my Zen microphoto, however, when I attempt to move something to my desktop, it says "stalled".

Please help me! I am in desperate need of these files.
Chaar.

[Qqmike]

Re: Help! External HDD and CD-R not being read by Kubuntu

Mounting your filesystems
Each partition on your hard drive is also a “filesystem.” To access a filesystem when you are in K/Ubuntu, the filesystem must first be ”mounted”; that is, attached to your operating system directories in some way.
There are two ways to mount a filesystem:

1 Manually mount it (even from a Live CD), a temporary method.
And,
2 Mount the filesystem automatically each time you boot into your operating system. This is a more permanent method. This is done by editing your filesystem table (the file /etc/fstab) in K/Ubuntu, to include an entry for the filesystem you wish to be automatically mounted.
After editing /etc/fstab, at a terminal, run the command: sudo mount –a.

You will find all this explained, step by step, in the following standard, favorite Linux references:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p10.htm

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/mounting.html

Psychocats: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php


(Glad you got it going, but it would be easier on us if you sort of stuck with the same thread that you start. This is your third! Anyway, congratulations on getting Kubuntu going! --Mike)