NTFS not seen in Kubuntu 24

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 21:26, Stephen Constantinou via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I am a low ability user.

OK, fair enough. But there are holes in your story.

I need to flag some of these, because they are not clear in your post.
I can see they have caused further discussion.

You keep using terms "master" and "slave" drives. This was a concept
in the 1990s with EIDE hard disks and CDs, but it hasn't applied since
then. There are no master or slave drives in modern computers that use
disk interfaces like SATA, USB, and so on.

So don't use those words, because they are misleading you and us. Find
some other ways, but slave drives don't exist any more and haven't for
about 20 years or so. In modern computers every drive is standalone.
What is a bit more important is whether a drive is internal or
external, and whether we're talking about hard disks (spinning
mechanical drives) or SSDs (solid state drives: all electronic, no
moving parts.)

E.g. If you can hear it working, and hear if it's turned on, if it
vibrates, it's a hard disk.

 > I have been using Kubuntu 22.04.  I also ran
> VirtualBox with Windows 11 as a virtual machine.

OK.

> I was saving lots of data onto an external HDD

Are you sure?

Connected to the computer how?

Connected to Virtualbox how?

> I upgraded by way of complete reinstall, to Kubuntu 24.  Which meant
> reinstalling VirtualBox. VirtualBox had too many problems so I now use
> Vmware.

Whoa whoa whoa. Why? It's a very different tool.

Virtualbox is very much still alive and still works. Why change? That
could cause many problems.

> Next, as my external HDD (NTFS) was sounding poorly

Please explain?

> I copied the
> essential files to the Kubuntu slave drive.

No such thing. Please explain in other terms.

>  I brought a replacement
> HDD.

Again: are you sure?

>  I formatted it using Gparted

OK.

> on a laptop whose HDD I disconnected,

Er -- how? And then how did you use Gparted?

> as NTFS.

How? What size is it? Connected how? Partitioned how?

> Windows as a VM can see it

We are now talking about in VMware, yes?

If so: how did you connect the drive to VMware?

> Believing myself to be clever, I connected the extHDD to the Windows
> machine and formatted it again as NTFS.  No improvement.

Again: how?

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