I just saw the last paragraph.    Yes sitting outside in a shed for a 
year could have hurt it.  I'm sure sitting in a hot shed through an 
Arizona summer didn't do the drive any good.  If all else  fails, you 
can at least salvage the magnets out of the drive.

However, let's not assume for the moment the drive is toast.  It could 
have some life in it.  Assume it is /dev/sda then sda1 will probably be 
the only partition on the drive if it only has 1.  If it has additional 
partitions on it, sda1 will be the first, sda2 the second and so on.  If 
you're going to mount the drive at /mnt/sda1 there has to be an sda1 
folder inside /mnt.

If that drive has been setting in a shed for a year, I wouldn't trust it.

In another post I mentioned mountmanager.  It will mount the partitions 
for you.

Hope that helps.

Derek

On 11/18/2011 05:18 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> Any idea as to what I can do to see it. There is a picture on it from 
> my winows daze that I want to get off of it before I put linux on it.
>
> There was a problem that I thought would resolve the issue of not 
> being able to see it. The jumper was set to 'slave' but resetting it 
> to master didn't help any. This drive has been sitting in a box next 
> to my computer for about three years and in the shed for one. Would 
> that have anything to do with it?
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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