[Swlug] External hard drive

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 13:01, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I have an idea my laptop is feeling the strain a bit, and I should like to get an external hard drive to back up all my data before something bad happens.
>
> I have a Sandisk SSD and a Samsung SSD, but cannot get the laptop HP elitebook running Mint Mate (Caja 1.12.7) to recognise either of them. I'd appreciate some help with this please, and advice on what external hard drive is best to back up important data. Looking at at least 1Tb.

I presume they are USB drives.  Run
tail -f /var/log/syslog
and plug in one of the drives.  Post what you get here.  In case you
don't know you can copy out of the terminal using Ctrl-Shift-C

Colin