My Seagate 500 GB External USB2 HDD was working fine for more than a year. I tried a Ubuntu Live CD (Fiesty Fawn) and tried mounting the drive in it. It worked fine and I could read all data. Tried the ntfs-3g plugin to make all the drives writable also but for some reason it did not work.
I tried booting it back in Windows XP and it said USB device failed. No drive was shown in My Computer.
I tried connecting to two other laptops running Windows XP and the same result.
I tried booting it again in Live CD and it is working perfectly fine and readable in Ubuntu.
And, every time I boot Linux, all the other desktop items I put seems to disappear except a shortcut to my external HDD. Also, in My Computer, my internal drives have a normal icon but my external is having an icon with a orange oval symbol as seen in the screenshot (Vitalix Nointernus is the external hdd).
Screenshot here.
What could be wrong? Did it just get Linux-ed? How do I get it back? It has over 400 GB of data!
I tried booting it back in Windows XP and it said USB device failed. No drive was shown in My Computer.
I tried connecting to two other laptops running Windows XP and the same result.
I tried booting it again in Live CD and it is working perfectly fine and readable in Ubuntu.
And, every time I boot Linux, all the other desktop items I put seems to disappear except a shortcut to my external HDD. Also, in My Computer, my internal drives have a normal icon but my external is having an icon with a orange oval symbol as seen in the screenshot (Vitalix Nointernus is the external hdd).
Screenshot here.
What could be wrong? Did it just get Linux-ed? How do I get it back? It has over 400 GB of data!