I do indeed only have on disk connected: 1 SATA 500GB split with Windows and Linux
OK,
@Just18,first things to note is that sfdisk is not working here, please take good note about that.EDIT: root permission was required
spin up/mount:
spin up can refer only to device, meaning a whole disk.
mount refer to partition(s)
In your case you need to mount the partition, and therefore you need:
a) to select one partition, of some supported type (NTFS, FAT32, ...)
b) mount the partition somewhere, say to /mnt
c) test the content of /mnt for file/dirs you are searching for
# a command like follow, will provide a list of the NTFS and FAT32 partitions
TEST_PART=`fdisk -l | egrep "NTFS|FAT32" | cut -d" " -f 1`
echo $TEST_PART
#
#
for PART in $TEST_PART
do
mount $PART /mnt
#####################
#
# perform you own test here
# i.e.:
echo $PART
ls /mnt
echo "\n\n"
#
#####################
sleep 2
umount $PART
done