External Hard drive problem

[John K Masters]

On 11:54 Mon 05 May     , Linda Hanigan wrote:
> I am hoping someone can help me. I have a seagate 500gb external usb
> hard drive. It has a NTFS filessystem. I was backing up to it last week
> and caught the power cord so it was the equivalent of turning it off so
> it was not unmounted. Now the drive is not recognized by Windows or
> Linux. I tried doing mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/free. I tried
> using -o force. Can anyone help me it says it can't find a drive on sda1
> so I don't know if I can even reformat it.
>               Thanks
>               Linda
> 
> 
What do you get if you connect it to your Linux box and run:-

sudo fdisk -l

After connecting try:- dmesg

Does that show anything? I don't really know too much about NTFS but
hopefully you haven't damaged the actual drive

Regards, John
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