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adam
Andalusia, ES.
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Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:02:17 +0200
last edited: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:03:51 +0200
My external HDD has frozen & will not mount.
I have my backup data on here & really not wanting to lose it. Any assistance gratefully received.
xmpp:adinfinitum@disroot.org
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mrjive
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:07:23 +0200
Have you tried as suggested, that is to reboot with windows and run chkdsk /f ?
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:26:04 +0200
LOL. Windoze? erm...Nope! Not on this mountain!
Great Views though! #
BlueGreenSandbox
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mrjive
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:48:08 +0200
well... why NTFS then?
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:48:30 +0200
$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:49:49 +0200
Why indeed? I do not know!! but it was happily an Ext4 partition!!
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:51:08 +0200
& ~# e2fsck -b gives error also!
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:54:08 +0200
& yet it clearly says sdb1 contains a ntfs with correct label! Im confused...but more importantly
really
want to recover my data!
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:15:34 +0200
last edited: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:19:32 +0200
BooYa!
#
ntfs
#
linux
#
fix
~# ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
[source: tek-tips.com]
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mrjive
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:29:14 +0200
try using gpart to guess partitions (not gparted, it's nother tool)
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adam
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:43:14 +0200
last edited: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:44:51 +0200
Thanks @
mrjive
problem solved! 300gb of data rescued! Phew.
Now off to milk some goats!!
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