I am able to view the fact that I have my portable hard drive connected in gparted. What would normally happen is that once I plug in my portable hard drive it would show up in nautilus then I click on it for it to be mounted. Now it is not doing what it use to do. I am unable to to see the icon when I plug it in anymore.
Found a video on how to open the portable drive if I need to open it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjF1x-Rj0o