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Im using Ubuntu 14.04LTS 64bit. Everytime I switch on my laptop during boot time I get a message saying Failed to mount Elements(My External HardDrive) press T to retry S to skip and M to manually mount. This only happens if my external is not plugged to the laptop which is most of the time as I only use my external to Back up import files. My question is: How can I stop Ubuntu from asking me 'that' when booting? Please note: I still want to be able to connect my External Hard Drive in the future with no problems. Thank you.

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Remove it from /etc/fstab (that file is used for fixed mounts).

From command line use either of these:

sudo nano /etc/fstab
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
sudo vim /etc/fstab

and put a # in front of the line that mounts that disk. Save and next reboot it will not prompt for it. If correct you can next time just remove that line from /etc/fstab since the paritions in here are supposed to be fixed partitions.

When you insert the cable for the disk next time it will mount in /media/ and show a pop-up with the contents.

more /etc/fstab

will list the file. Example:

# /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).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=06ec14b4-1c86-4b9d-88e0-aad0e6e236bc /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /discworld was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=f35b4bfe-1366-4990-bedb-643626359728 /discworld      ext4    defaults  0       2
# /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=4fa0af65-4c30-4ec4-b627-fdd8e69b93f9 /home           ext4    defaults 0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=76aa372f-f358-48d8-b084-c934c2405d1f none            swap    sw    0       0
Rinzwind
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Edit /etc/fstab and add the noauto option after in the options column. See more details here: How can I prevent Ubuntu from mounting particular partitions/devices?

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