How to detect and mount an external USB (NTFS) drive?

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I got one of those Orico 3.5" HDD enclosure and used a Hitachi 500GB HDD. Win11 easily detects it, probably because it is in NTFS format. I used it with DietPi and it seems the HDD was not even detected. I used “lsblk” and it shows only the Pi’s (RPi 3) drive. The external drive is driven by an external power adapter.

My question is, how can I make the Pi detect the NTFS drive? Eventually I am trying to use Syncthing to sync stuff from my Win11 pc but that is another story. Thanks.

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You would need to mount it with dietpi-drive_manager, auto-mount is disabled by default on dietpi.

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Means even following doesn’t show anything from your HDD?

lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
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