The disk drive for /media/sda2 is not ready yet or not present

[ryan858]

I didn't read the solution link, and am glad to see that all these people have found a solution. But just my two cents here... I think it has something to do with grub.cfg or fstab... and definately use UUID's in fstab and grub. Actually, use them in all scripts, or anything that is executed at startup... anything automated. Because if you remove a device or partition, then the names will change, but UUID will always stay the same... I think it is based on the device's serial number.. I'm probably wrong though, but it sounds good. Lol.

*The above is not advice in any way, shape, or form. It is just my opinion, and no research has actually been done on any of these statements.*
In other words, they could be complete lies!

[virtualman]

I hope this might help you.It worked out for me.

http://neophyteman.wordpress.com/201...mount-problem/

[Picro]

I was facing a similar problem after reinstalling Ubuntu 10.04 NRE along with Win 7 on my netbook. While installing, I'd created a FAT32 partition, mounted on /windows. Later on I formatted that to NTFS and mounted on /media/data. That change led to Ubuntu giving the error message "The disk drive for /windows is not ready yet or not present". The solution provided by Havenoname was of good help and commenting out the appropriate entry in the /etc/fstab solved the issue! Thank you folks!

[cougar4u]

I had a similar problem as well. I had to do my monthly reformat of Windows and after restoring GRUB through live CD I was getting this error.

I found this tutorial to be very useful and much more condensed then the previous one posted.

http://neophyteman.wordpress.com/201...-mount-problem

I simply had to edit my fstab and remove the entry that wasn't mounting. Once I did that, all was well.

[tubunu]

I followed the advice in this thread but the problem remains. "The disk drive for /winc is not ready yet or not present". I skip it by pressing "S" and then mount the Windows C drive by doing this in the Terminal:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /winc

Any way of making this command permanent? Thanks.

[tubunu]

I followed all the advice in this thread (and the links) but I can't get the C drive (/dev/sda1) to auto mount at boot... Here is the output of the command:

tubunu@lucid:~$ sudo mount -a
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume 'UUID=c05caf2b-a192-43d9-97d3-bcba66edc3cc': No such file or directory

My fstab file:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sdb3 during installation
UUID=29862247-002d-46ad-a71b-ad0b653c545a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=6b46faa6-dbf5-4e5a-97f8-4bec996aa800 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# /studio was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=0A706EBB706EAD5F /studio         ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       0
# /winc was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c05caf2b-a192-43d9-97d3-bcba66edc3cc /winc           ntfs    defaults        0       2
# /wind was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=F6002588002550C3 /wind           ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       0
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=b02b84ed-caeb-43b0-a7d7-7a35e848c5a1 none            swap    sw              0       0

and

tubunu@lucid:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x875a90b9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3825        9729    47431882    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            3825        9729    47431881    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf35e0f24

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        7831    62902476    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2            9149       19457    82807012    5  Extended
/dev/sdb3            7832        9148    10578802+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb5            9149       19386    82236703+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb6           19387       19457      570276   82  Linux swap / Solaris

What am I missing?

[NormInNorman]

My machine gave me the same error screen every time I booted with my USB drive plugged in. It was pretty annoying because every time I rebooted I had to do it twice because I'd forget to unplug my drive beforehand. I changed everything I could in my fstab from /dev/xxx to UUID=yyy like the links above and it worked! The only thing I can figure out is maybe the USB stuff is mounting before fstab and it was using what I had set as my /home partition's dev, thus causing a conflict.

This was a clean install - I wonder why my fstab didn't use UUIDs in the first place? I hope this doesn't mean I'll have problems in the future.

[NormInNorman]

What am I missing?

Is it possible that the UUID in your fstab is wrong? You could try doing "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" and double checking.

[tubunu]

Is it possible that the UUID in your fstab is wrong? You could try doing "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" and double checking.

You were right. Thanks for the help, it is fixed now.

[chouf]

I had the same issue but I'm pretty sure it was related to a USB external HDD that was plugged in.

I was getting the message

The drive for /media/sdb1 is not ready or not present.

I followed the instructions provided on neophyteman's page linked above and fixed the issue.

I did not entirely follow the procedure and ended up simply removing the line with /media/sdb1 in my fstab file.

So to summarize for my problem:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

located the line that was similar to something like

UUID=a647ea33-74ee-4123-84bf-7edc32e2e39b /media/sdb1 defaults 0 0

and simply deleted it.

Reboot the machine and it was solved.

I took the risk of deleting the line as I was sure it was not one of the partition on which the machine would boot. If it would have been a /sda I do not think I would have removed the line.

Anyway this was just to add a bit more of documentation on this problem

PS: I'm also dual booting W7/Ubuntu 10.04