[Swlug] External hard drive

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 14:33, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.771741]  sdb: unknown partition table

Is that the other one?  It needs the partition table re-creating.  You
can do that in gparted too.  Select the drive then Device > Create
Partition Table.  You want type msdos.  Again just make sure you are
doing it on the right drive :)  Then you can create the partion(s) you
want.

Colin