What error message do you get when you run palimpsest when hdd is connected? Could you add strace output? Also I'm curious about fdisk -l /dev/sda (yes, sda and not sdb) if it mentions something like omitting empty partition. From XsessionErrors.txt I have a suspicion that it is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571038
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