Mount drives If disk is already formatted, You can mount it. You may need to create a file system for it though.  If you do, Replace  XY accordingly, but double check that you are specifying the correct partition mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXY Do that to all the drives/partitions you need to. Now you should be able to go to "Disk manager" in the GUI or, mount the drive/s manually.  To mount in Terminal: create a mount point (if you haven't already) sudo mkdir /directry/to/mount/to Now mount it: mount /dev/sbxy /new/mounted/location   Check your file type before you continue lsblk -f  If you want it permanent, you will need to add it to the fstab.  Mounting from fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # # /this uses the UUID of the drive and mounts it do the directory you want it to go to UUID=57sdfgsdf4jk-f2nh-49u8-9596-719a26547f94 /mount/dir ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 0 # /this uses the drive location and mounts it to the directory /dev/sdb /mount/dir ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 0 Type "lsblk" is your drive mounted? Type "sudo mount -a"   How about now?  Try "lsblk" again.