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I was using Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 as dual boot. I just uninstalled windows completely. Windows was in sda2 (type:ext3). Now I can't use this drive (it's empty and not writeable). How I can use this drive?

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I understand that there is already a partition formatted with ext3. So till now you just need to mount this partition to use it.

create a mounting point suppose /media/ext-hdd

sudo mkdir /media/ext-hdd

now mount the partition to that point

sudo mount -t ext3 /de3v/sda2 /media/ext-hdd

Now if you want to make auto mount this partition you have to add it to the /etc/fstab file.

first identify the UId of this partition

sudo blkid /dev/sda2

Now open fstab

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add the following

UUID=YOUR_UID /media/ext-hdd    ext3    defaults    0   0

save and exit

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