Why won't my Mac with Mountain Lion OS recognise my external Samsung hard drive?

Why won't my Mac with Mountain Lion OS recognise my external Samsung hard drive?

Launch/Utilities/Terminal and enter this command at the prompt:
diskutil list
Press return.
If it sees the disk, note the number of the disk (far left column) you want to mount.
Then, enter this command:
mount /dev/(number of disk)
Put in the number no parenthesis.
Press Return.
If that doesn't wortk try the same with this command...
mount force /dev/(number of disk)

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