As the title says, how do i format and use my old harddrives? Im on a desktop pc and just installed Manjaro on top of win10. I have 2 harddrives connected i want to use and they have a mounting error. How do i format and use them?
Very new to this by the way.
Hi @marus, and welcome!
It can be easy or hard. It depends on what you want to do with the hard drives. Also, it highly depends on what the errors are when trying to do anything with them. That’ll tell you, or someone if it’s recommended or not. Because, if they are too old, it can lead to data loss.
Please see How to provide good information
System:
Kernel: 5.10.42-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=afcb9efc-c49f-4e8c-9fb1-64c4eee884b3 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: A320M serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P5.00 date: 12/19/2018
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.62 GiB used: 3.17 GiB (20.3%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
family: 17 (23) model-id: 1 stepping: 1 microcode: 8001137 cache: L2: 2 MiB
bogomips: 51114
Speed: 2037 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 2037 2: 1806 3: 2770 4: 2751 5: 1281 6: 1277 7: 2899 8: 3016
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mca
mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl
npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb
perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext
tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave
xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] driver: nouveau v: kernel
bus-ID: 26:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f08 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x317mm (40.0x12.5")
s-diag: 1064mm (41.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 size: 531x299mm (20.9x11.8")
diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: DVI-D-1 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 89
size: 546x352mm (21.5x13.9") diag: 650mm (25.6")
OpenGL: renderer: NV166 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.1.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 26:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 28:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 7 type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 1038:12ad
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.42-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 25:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp37s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4.6:3 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required.
RAID:
Device-1: md126 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive
size: <superuser required>
Info: report: N/A blocks: 541784 chunk-size: N/A
Components: Online: N/A Spare:
0: sdb maj-min: 8:16 size: 1.82 TiB state: S
Device-2: md127 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive
size: <superuser required>
Info: report: N/A blocks: 538328 chunk-size: N/A
Components: Online: N/A Spare:
0: sda maj-min: 8:0 size: 931.51 GiB state: S
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 10.12 GiB (0.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MG03ACA100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: FL1D
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD2000FYYZ-01UL1B1 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1K02
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: LITE-ON IT model: LGT-256M6G
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 202 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD+-RW GH82N rev: A101
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 125 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.38 GiB (97.99%)
used: 10.12 GiB (4.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
uuid: afcb9efc-c49f-4e8c-9fb1-64c4eee884b3
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: 0BB2-19B7
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 931.51 GiB fs: <superuser required>
label: Data uuid: 6EE0938AE09356E5
ID-2: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 1.82 TiB fs: <superuser required>
label: Data-2 uuid: F692C23992C1FDDD
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 9 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-4:2 info: HP LP2475w Monitor Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 2mA chip-ID: 03f0:2f24 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4.6:3 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 7 type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 6 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1038:12ad class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 3-3:3 info: Sunplus Innovation Gaming mouse [Philips SPK9304]
type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 98mA chip-ID: 1bcf:08a0 class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 3-4:4 info: Trust Keyboard [GXT 830] type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 145f:01e5 class-ID: 0300
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.5 C mobo: 0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 816
Info:
Processes: 268 Uptime: 30m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 1189 pacman: 1182 lib: 322 flatpak: 0 snap: 7
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04
Im going to use the hard-drives to store games i download and miscellaneous files, what should i do to format them?
I provided the information above
What error?
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- which tools have you used for formatting disks ?
- what errors did you get ?
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Maybe you can look at the disks with GParted. You can do this without mounting them
The discs don’t seem too old. 1TB, 250GB haven’t been around for too long. But it might be useful to read the smart values, how long the disks have been in use, how many starts … And then there’s an SSD. Which of these 3 are the drives you are talking about?
If you do inxi as root, you will get more information about your system, which is now missing.
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