NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

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If you do that you will not have any chance to recover your data. It will delete evet thing on your drive. On the other hand your drive might be usable again afterwords

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-----Original Message-----
From: David McNally <david3333333 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:45:13 
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

Hi Karl.

Thanks for getting back so quick, but I have a little problem with
that. The partition on the broken hard drive is bigger than my
internal hard drive, or any hard drive that i own. That might not work
so well. Also, I'm not too good with opening hard drives or computers.
I'm good at fixing software, but I'm no use for fixing broken
hardware.

However, I noticed in GParted that it allows me to "Format as NTFS". I
didn't actually do it, but I was wondering what would happen if I did.
Does format strictly mean that it will erase everything on the hard
drive, or will it just make the hard drive into an NTFS partition? If
it just makes it into an NTFS partition, then I could probably try
that, right?

David

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> David McNally wrote:
>> Hi Everyone.
>>
>> Back when i used windows i got a 700 GB USB external hard drive. It
>> was formatted with NTFS because it was first set up on windows. I've
>> been using it since then on Ubuntu, without any problems. i never
>> bothered to reformat it as a better filesystem because the NTFS worked
>> well enough, and I didn't want to mess with it. However, it isn't
>> working properly anymore. Maybe someone here can help me.
>>
>> I opened up GParted to see if i could find a problem with it. When i
>> go into GParted and select the hard drive, it tells me that the file
>> system is "unknown". Next to the word "unknown" is a black square. It
>> is able to determine the correct size (698.64 GiB), but can not tell
>> me how much is used and how much is unused. Under partition, it says
>> "/dev/sdf1" and then has a little orange triangle with an "!" in it.
>> When i go into Nautilus, the hard drive is not listed or mentioned in
>> any way.
>>
>> I can tell that this isn't good, but I was hoping that someone had
>> maybe seen this before and might know how to help. It looks like the
>> rest of the computer is working just fine. Ubuntu boots from the
>> internal hard drive properly, so I'm still able to use the computer
>> like normal, but the external hard drive isn't working at all. I did
>> have quite a lot of important stuff on it, so it's pretty important
>> for me to be able to use it again.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>
>        I have a big hard drive in a plastic box that connects to my
> computer via a USB port. It works fine, but do not have more
> than one partition! If you have trouble with it, take the hard
> drive out of the box and connect it into your computer. Then
> look at it with all your tools.
>
>        If the hard drive is bad, consider using dd to copy it all
> from the bad to a partition on your computer. I had lots of
> good luck with dd on a bad HD.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
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