Hey guys,
I’m having problems mounting my 1TB SSD. The “obvious” ways (e.g. using the mount command) didnt work properly. It could be the case that the SSD is protected with an password, I dont have, cmaybe its my last time buying stuff on ebay… Is there a way to mount and use my SSD or an workaround to bypass the password authentification?
Thanks in advance
Reformat it, passwords cannot be bypassed easily.
How do I do that, sorry being new to that whole Linux stuff
Use a partition manager: partitionmanager (KDE) or gparted.
Be careful to choose the right disk. Losing data on other disks is not what you want.
I like to use fdisk in the terminal. It’s a command-line utility found in most systems. Run fdisk /path/to/your/drive
If you have access to your GUI you can install gparted, which is a graphical version of the terminal-based parted, which does the same thing.
is there any way to delete a post when you post to discover someones answered already?
Click on … throw in 
Is this an internal or external drive?
you should disconnect all other devices not necessary before doing anything if you are unfamiliar with formatting/partitioning drives. You can easily remove the data from the wrong drive leaving yourself with an unbootable system.
Since your new I would recommend a GUI as it will be a tad easier to use. Gparted is nice however It will only display the selected device I think kde partition is a bit different and allows you to easily see all the devices connected at once but don’t quote me on that since its actually been years since I’ve used it.
installing KDE partition manager using yay didnt work out that well. It’s instantly closing
?
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S partitionmanager
(if you use a GTK based DE, this will bring a lot of dependencies)
or
sudo pacman -S gprted
What did not work? Which command did you use? What was the output? Can you show that?
scanning for drives, I’, getting an I/O error when scanning the sdb drive
Please post the information asked by @mbod.
If you get I/O error, it may indicate some hardware failure, filesystem corruption and so on…
We need to see what you see. We need to see which commands / programs you use, what your input to the commands was and what the output of the commands / programs was.
really need to answer this question as well. There could be a cable problem, there could be a failing usb port on the system. the more you can tell us the more we can properly help
Yeah saw it to late, deleted my post 
Im getting this using the lsblk command to see the “name” of my SSD.
Then I’m trying to mount it, giving me that message:
first you are trying to mount it wrong
where do you want it to mount you should do something like
mount /dev/sdb /home/$EXTRADRIVE
Alright thanks for that:)
Now i got that surprise:
