Welcome to the Ask Ubuntu community. To help in troubleshooting your issue, please edit your question to include the version of the Ubuntu OS that you're running. That said, and looking at the image you provided, I see an error "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error." I would suspect that this is your issue. You may want to confirm the error and reformat this device.
– richblJun 13 '23 at 13:14
You should normally create one or more partitions on the drive, and create a file system in each partition, and mount them. Please try [again] to create a partition and file system. The partitions will be seen as devices /dev/sdx1, /dev/sdx2 ... where x is a letter, for example b.
– sudodusJun 13 '23 at 13:47
yeah, that was it. i partitioned it with gparted. so many steps that it's just a couple of clicks on Windows, gd.
– fedeJun 13 '23 at 14:40
/dev/sdx1
,/dev/sdx2
... where x is a letter, for exampleb
. – sudodus Jun 13 '23 at 13:47