NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

[David McNally]

Hmm... 1TB hard drives are certainly coming down in price these days.

It was bound to happen. I must get a 1 TB hard drive.

Guess I'll have to go down to Costco tomorrow.

Thanks.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> David McNally wrote:
>> Hi again.
>>
>> Looks like I shouldn't try formatting to NTFS, considering that I
>> still need the data on the hard drive.
>>
>        Big SNIP!
>
>        I fear you need to buy another HD that is much bigger than
> the bad one. Then you can save your stuff to it and THEN try
> to save the old HD.
>
> 73 Karl
>
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