Mounting issues of an external drive on Ubuntu

You get the message that your external hdd cannot get mount on your Ubuntu system?
Most probably the disk's log file has recorded an inappropriate disconnection from another installation.

Get the collection of ntfs programms called ntfsprogs

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

then run

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

in your terminal, where sdb1 stands for your device's location.

Plug again your drive. It should be working

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