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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! (lemmy.ml)

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Ever had a question about Linux but felt too afraid to ask? Well now's your chance, ask any question about Linux, no matter how noob or repeated it is, and I and others will help answer them.

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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Double checked and all of the drives are basic. I'm very confused as to what is different between the disks that readable and the ones that aren't.

I've even tried multiple distros. Same scenario.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

That's a bummer. Unfortunately I can't think of something else since fast startup has been suggested by another user and it's also not the case.

The drives are shown as NTFS by Gparted right? Also can you confirm that the sizes should be those sizes? As in do you remember from when you bought them? 16 TB is still a big drive. Additionally can you confirm that they are all different drives and not partitions on the same disk.

Do they show up on the file explorer sidebar or if you go to "Other Locations" (in the file explorer)? If so do you get an error when you try to access them?

If they don't unfortunately you probably will have to use the terminal to try and mount them so we can hopefully get some error message and hopefully some clue to what is going on.