External HDD is corrupted

[Farrukh Ali]

It was formatted in ntfs in windows 7, a) what did you use to copy the files?
in ubuntu 12.04b) what makes you think that this HDD is not mounted when you now plug it in in Ubuntu?it gives a long error message and suggests to run chkdsk /f I have tried all this stuff on windows 7 and also tried to mount it manually on Ubuntu but couldn't get it done,fdisk -l outputs its type as HPFS/NTFS



> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:42:34 +1100
> From: blchupin at iinet.net.au
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: External HDD is corrupted
> 
> On 21/02/13 21:07, Farrukh Ali wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > After copying data to my external HDD from Ubuntu I safely removed the 
> > drive, then after plugging it in again it is not mounted, HDD has NTFS 
> > file system, I tried it in windows PC but it is considered as raw 
> > partition  and ask to format it before opening it, is anyone 
> > experienced with this problem? can my data be recovered?
> 
> To begin, if you only COPIED files to that external drive then you still 
> have the originals somewhere and therefore there is no need to recover 
> anything from the external HDD. Right?
> 
> Secondly, how do you know that the HDD is formatted in ntfs file system? 
> External drives (or any drive, period) normally don't come formatted in 
> ntfs. So who formatted it in ntfs? (And which ntfs - the XP version or 
> the newer Windows 7 etc ntfs?)
> 
> If you were able to copy files to the external, (a) what did you use to 
> copy the files?; (b) what makes you think that this HDD is not mounted 
> when you now plug it in in Ubuntu?; and, after you plug it in, what do 
> see when you issue the command 'fdisk -l' as root in a terminal?
> 
> BC
> 
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