![]() ![]() which tells me that windows really farked it up som'n since TestDisk failed to rescue, i did reformat the disk. i also ran TestDisk and it flopped too, even on the deep scan. It may be the only thing keeping you sane. With the persistent Ubuntu USB thumb drive, I can do things that can't be done from a Live CD. I couldn't remember if Puppy used sudo, and whether it used /media or /mnt. That was part of the reason for the edit. with Puppy /mnt/sdb1 just happened to be there already. Gaaaag.īy the way, it wouldn't matter what mount point you used for the ntfs-3g command, so long as it was an existing directory. "choke down that brick of cold, frozen spinach" Unfortunately I got a visual image of that in my head. I was thinking that you could also try to fix the failed Ubuntu upgrade however, I'm guessing that you already tried that. I'm glad you didn't give up and reformat the disk. if this fails then yeah, i probably will metaphorically choke down that brick of cold, frozen spinach and reformat the external into FAT32 and copy over everything again. All my files are already on the external.I just want to fix it so that I can see them no.because i'm stubborn, i'm currently using TestDisk off of the Ultimate Boot CD to run a deep scan on it looking for broken partitions. But.I would just rather avoid having to spend another 3 hours or more today doing that. I still have all my files on my laptop's hard drive and Puppy can see them - the Ubuntu upgrade I attempted did not overwrite all my stuff. If worst comes to worst, I suppose I could always reformat the external hdd and then copy the files over to it again. Wasn't there an "Ultimate Linux Bootable Rescue CD" or something like that a while back? I can't remember it's exact name now. What are the tools I should use? Is there something I can download somewhere that I can burn to a bootable CD or something that can fix a broken NTFS drive/partition? It would almost have to be something bootable at this point since I don't know how to install anything new on Puppy. But I do not know how to go about trying to rescue it. I didn't do anything to it except let Windows screw up its ability to be mounted/unmounted, somehow. I KNOW this external hdd should be recoverable. I'm still on that Puppy Linux LiveCD right now as I type. My Ubuntu laptop, however, is no longer usable - after I copied the 130GB of files I wanted to save to my external hdd, I attempted an upgrade of Ubuntu. So since it won't "unmount safely", I just unplug it (probably a mistake, but I didn't see that I had any other choice at the moment), then try mounting it using a LiveCD of Puppy Linux - Puppy will not mount it, just gives an error but no details. ![]() I was accessing files from the drive from within Windows just fine minutes before. I also get another error: drive is corrupt, run chkdsk utility. ![]() Then suddenly a message pops up - cannot write to drive. Tried it several more times, waiting a minute or two between each try - same thing. It told me that it could not remove the external drive because another program was accessing it. Then I tried to do the "Safely Remove Hardware" thing. Just to test it, I plugged it into an older Windows XP machine, and it seemed to work just fine. It has about 130GB of data I spent 3 hours copying to it yesterday from my Ubuntu laptop. I had a perfectly working Western Digital 250GB external usb hdd about 30 minutes ago. ![]()
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