[donco]

Hi All - I decided to buy a rasberry pi 3 for the purpose of soley being used for a plex server instead of using my laptop.

I bought a rasberry pi 3 and 32gb microSD. I used etcher to burn the PlexPi_1.3.img onto my microSD, and installed it into the Pi. I plugged in my External 8TB Western Digital HDD (which I presume is NTFS - I just started loading it with my media files out of the box). I am hard lined into my router, not using wifi 

When I boot up the Rasberry Pi, it boots plex no problem. When I logged in, I was prompted to select folders for media library. Unfortunately - I don't see my external drive listed when I browse for media. Is there something I am missing? Any help here for a linux/RPI newb would be awesome. Thank you in advance!

[SpoddyCoder]

Not sure what's installed by default on the image you used, but NTFS drive's need an additional package. Run the following commands on the Pi to update the package cache & install the ntfs package...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

[infocon]

Hi Donco, 

Have you try mounting your hard drive? Try this.
$ sudo fdisk -l (find the usb device. In my case it is /dev/sda1
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/usb
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb