Toshiba USB hard drive isn't detected

[AgoristTeen1994]

Hello, I am new here, though I have been using fedora linux quite happily for the past 3 months and I am having a problem with one of my external USB hard drives by Toshiba. I tried to encrypt it with LVM and while it was encrypting my desktop suffered a power outage....and now whenever I plug it in nothing happens, and I am always seeing a hard drive mounted that is the same size as the external hard drive in the file manager, regardless of whether it's plugged in or not. I also cannot access this "ghost hard drive" though it "might" be my desktop's hard drive as it is fully encrypted with LVM. From my understanding it seems I have bricked the usb hard drive....so is there anyway I can "unbrick" it? Or do you guys think something else is going on here?

[george_toolan]

Try to boot Fedora 16 or 17 from a livecd

tail -f /var/log/messages

Then plug it in and see what happens.

You might be able to format the drive and lose all your data ;-)

Btw does LVM support removeable drives?

Did you try to add it to your desktop logical volume which might explain the "ghost" drive or did you create a new logical volume for the external drive?

[AgoristTeen1994]

Hey thanks for the help guys but I finally called toshiba and they said I'd have to get a new hard drive. So I'm going to probably try a different brand of external hard drive.