Mounting NTFS partition in middle of external hdd.

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I have an external hdd which was sold to me as a 1TB hdd. My parents, thinking they were doing me a favor, bought a new casing and threw out the old one, without noticing that there was a piece of electronics in the bottom of the old casing that reduced an actual 3TB hdd to a 1TB hdd, (Yes, I have no idea why anyone would do that!). Now I have an external 3TB hdd with a 1TB partition in the middle sorrounded by RAW unformatted stuff. Windows cannot even see it, but Linux 9 can. It shows up in lsusb, but I don't know the exact SECTOR and CYLINDER numbers where it starts and stops. How do I mount the friggin' thing?

I have tried to buy a new hdd of the same type but this time there was no electronics. It was just a 1TB hdd,

It shows up in lsusb as:

BUS 003 DEVICE 007 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASAM1051E SATA 6GB/s bridge, ASAM1051E SATA 6GB/s bridge, ASAM1051E SATA 3GB/s bridge

The company is not bering very helpful. Is there a tool that can help me finding my partition in the middle of this mess?

Regards,
Soren


 
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Not all Linux distros have NTFS packages installed by default. Look into that and maybe it will show. Are you just trying to reformat it, get data, or what? If you're using Debian Stretch search NTFS in synaptic. You may need to google which one if it's not super obvious. I don't know the package name off the top of my head.
 
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I have the NTFS drivers installed. In particular ntfs-3g and related. That's not the problem. I need some kind of method for a partition tool to scan the disk until it meets the valid NTFS partition I know is there.

I have no trouble mounting other NTFS hdds. In fact using XFCE this happens automatically where in the pas I had to edit fstab. I would like to edit fstab, but since I have no idea where the partition is, this will be a real piece of guesswork.

In fact I fear it is already too late, but given the content of the partition I will leave no stone unturned.

Regards,
SBT
 
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lsblk -l shows only sda and my CDROM drive. But I will gladly give testdisk a spin.


TIA,
SBT
 
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Is sda the disk, are you booting from the cdrom? You have to point testdisk at the disk and if it's not showing under lsblk then the entire device isn't being recognized. Check in your bios to see if you can see it. You may have a hardware issue.
 
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Well it turns up is lsusb. Now, besides testdisk it suggested a package called "forensics-extra". Maybe this will provide some tools...

And yes, sda is my system disk. I'm not using my CD-ROM since install.
 
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OK. This is what dmesg says when I connect the blasted thing:

[ 888.554118] usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 888.695584] usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=55aa
[ 888.695588] usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[ 888.695591] usb 3-3: Product: ASMT1053
[ 888.695593] usb 3-3: Manufacturer: asmedia
[ 888.695594] usb 3-3: SerialNumber: 00000000000000000000
[ 888.696309] usb 3-3: UAS is blacklisted for this device, using usb-storage instead
[ 888.696313] usb-storage 3-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 888.696508] usb-storage 3-3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 55aa: 400000
[ 888.696885] scsi host6: usb-storage 3-3:1.0


A little weird with the S/N. But it's definitely detected on some level.

And thx for the link. Looks pertinent to my problem. No jumpers to play with though. I can't even connect it using an ordinary SATA/SCSI/IDE cable or whatever it's called nowadays,
 
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Was there more lines after that?
 
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Linux pauline 4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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The port problem might very well be the solution. The latop I'm using isn't the newest one.

I've had several good pointers from you guys. Is should be solvable now.


I still don't undestqand why I dont have the command mkinitcpio. Maybe it's been superceeded by initramfs. Im not sure. Ill dig into it tomorrow. It's 22:00 here....


 
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There *is* a SATA connection! It was just well hiddden. That might do the trick. I need to unscrew a bunch of (hopefully) useless crap....


Regards,
Soren
 
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