[ubuntu-za] NTFS issuse

[Marius Kruger]

Try mounting it as ntfs-3g instead of ntfs.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1877874
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133176

On 17 May 2013 13:13, Dewald Noeth <djnoeth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to get data off a Hard drive giving me the following error:
> Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/queery/765262F75262BB8D: Command-line
> `mount -t "ntfs" -o
> "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177"
> "/dev/sdb2" "/media/queery/765262F75262BB8D"' exited with non-zero exit
> status 12: NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
> The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
>
> It's also showing 2 partitions while in windows it shows 1. any ideas how
> to fix it?
>
> Dewald J. Noeth
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> djnoeth at gmail.com
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