HDD wont mount
March 6, 2024, 07:03
Updated pi last night. It froze while restarting services i think? so i shut it down. Now neither of my hard drives will mount. They are both set to automount in fstab. They also show up in fdisk and blkid
if you shutdown in the middle of an update or the update failed that's expected
i thought it would be somewhat okay because it was just restarting services (that restart all the rime right?)
any ideas on what i can do? everything else seems to be working fine besides mounting
maybe finish the update by updating again sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade -y; sudo reboot now
When you mount a drive what does the log say ?
How do I access the log?
I seem to be fully upgraded
i used dsmeg
Please post text as text.
Okay I will when I get home. Thank you!
I plugged in the hard drive towards the end of the log. Also I realized my pi wont boot when the drive is plugged in, if that helps
Row 5 indicate the issue and a possible solution can be found here, https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=359622
It doesnt seem to have worked. I tried what was in the post. I changed the boot to boot/firmware
log still says "UEFI not found"
I am using only an sd
and my external hdd is attached
Any other ideas?
Is anyone around to help me troubleshoot? I am free for at least a few hours
wait let me catch up
is the HDD showing if you run lsblk? I think that's the command
Yes it does
is there any important files on it?
if it has an operating system that doesn't matter because we can sort that out later
not really but i have put a bunch of work into setting up the system. Its running Rasp Pi OS
ok that's fine we can work with that
are you working via display and keyboard or ssh/vnc?
i can work in all of those but usually use vnc
ok you need a display for some of it tho
okay no problem I have it hooked up to a screen
one second
pi4?
yep
ok run mkfs <device> -t ext4
lsblk tells you the device path
it should start with /dev/ i think
I am just realzing you asked me if there are important files on the HDD, not the pi
oh yes
There are important files on the HDD
oh ok dont do that then
but no HDD works
so i dont think its drive related
save those important fils to the pc
im just trying this anyway to try
i dont have many ideas past this so might as well
The only issue is its about 2TB of data
I can use a smaller usb stick if that helps
oh jeesus
hahaha right
what why?
you just need to save those files somewhere if you really need it
That is going to take a while but I can do it
ping me when your ready