Re: [LUG] NTFS drive unmountable

[Philip Whateley <philip.whateley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm

Still problems: intermittently slow to mount, then wouldn't mount then would mount the drive but not the volume etc etc

Took out USB at both ends and then plugged it back in again, it mounted (and faster).

So probably the lead. I'll try a new one but I'll also look at replacement drive as SMART is detecting bad sectors. At lease I have a fighting chance of copying off anything remotely useful.

Many thanks

Phil



On 19/07/13 16:08, Simon Avery wrote:

Gorden has given the obvious answer, and most likely to be correct.

However...

It could also be a duff usb port and quite like a duff usb /lead/ producing these errors. The latter is surprisingly common with usb 2.0 (and for all I know, 3.0 too).

Try different lead and port - although the corruption could exist on the fs caused by problem writes caused by a duff lead.

(read on further).  You got it mounted, great! But if you continue to have issues, before you fling it, try a different lead.

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