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I used ubuntu 14.04 and windows 8.1 as dual boot. windows was in sda2 drive. I removed windows and sda2 drive became empty which was not writeable. I was able to write in that drive following this.

Now problem is that every time I boot PC i face

The disk drive for /media/ext-hdd is not ready yet or not present

Continue to wait, or Press s to skip mounting or M for manuall recovery

How to get rid of this message?

Note that, running this command:

EDITOR=gedit sudoedit /etc/fstab

the file is opened contains:

# /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/sda8 during installation
UUID=254c94fe-8270-48f4-8e0e-eaea3e1e724f /               ext4        errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=e1fba1b7-c6fa-4321-b69f-302e428200c9 /home           ext4        defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=2a74858d-7f8c-4c12-a365-d1bf9291b4ae none            swap        sw              0       0
UUID=YOUR_UID /media/ext-hdd    ext3    defaults    0   0
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partho
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Open a terminal and type:

EDITOR=gedit sudoedit /etc/fstab

Locate the line which contains your Windows partition and comment it out (prepend a #):

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

Reboot, and Ubuntu should stop complaining about it not being present.

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