Having trouble connecting external USB drive

Hello All, I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling. I'd now like to move those files to my Fedora system, but Fedora doesn't see the drive. I have no trouble with USB sticks, connect them and they are immediately available, but when I connect the drive I hear a couple 'pings' from the system and that's all. I've spent some time trawling through the various stories on the subject, but all seem to relate to a permanent attachment, suggesting changes to the /etc/fstab to always mount the USB drive. I'm really looking for a 'casual' connection, as and when needed. I know that I've been able to do this in the distant past, i.e. plug in the drive and an icon appears and away I go, but that was a while ago and using earlier versions of Fedora. Any advice and help greatly appreciated. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell

On 30/8/19 1:19 pm, Terry Duell via luv-main wrote:
Hello All, I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling.
Does the drive have a propriety connection software (eg: security system) in Windows? Unplug it - plug it in and send the last few lines of (in terminal): dmesg Thanks

Terry Duell via luv-main wrote:
Hello All, I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling. I'd now like to move those files to my Fedora system, but Fedora doesn't see the drive.
You don't say how big the drive is; it's definitely not an exFAT issue ? regards Rohan Mcleod
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Piers
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Rohan McLeod
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Terry Duell