Mount point does not exist

[claydoh]

Are you sure it is /dev/sddx? This can change, depending on what is connected/disconnected at any time.

It is better to use UUIDs which do not change.

But really:

I knocked my external hard drive off the top of my box, and it hasn't been right since.

t lsusb does not show the external hard drive unless the USB cable is pulled and plugged back in.Then lsusb shows the hard drive, for a while.

This is the real issue. Something is damaged, or has come loose.

[cookiemuncher]

If you open a terminal and type 'sudo dmesg -w' and plug in the drive you should be able to follow the connect processes.

[Jeremy_Ray]

I'm attempting to mount an external hard drive. In the past I was able to do this by running

sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/jeremy/easystore

. Then I knocked my external hard drive off the top of my box, and it hasn't been right since.

Following online instructions, I have added

/dev/sdd1                       /media/jeremy/easystore  ext4   defaults    0 0

to my fstab, saved and rebooted, to no avail. I tried to temporarily create the mount point with

sudo mkdir /media/jeremy/easystore

- which also did not work.

This can't be hard. What am I doing wrong?

I should also add that lsusb does not show the external hard drive unless the USB cable is pulled and plugged back in. Then lsusb shows the hard drive, for a while. After a while, the external hard drive goes to sleep, or does something like that.

And I just reinstalled the OS, and the condition persists.