[SOLVED] New User - Cant mount external hard drive

[ILContent]

I just installed Ubuntu to replace XP Pro earlier today, and when I went to mount my portable hard drive, I got this error message:


I am not so sure of what to do here...

Help would be appreciated


-ILC

[whych]

If you have windows still installed, boot to windows and then do a chldsk aand shutdown. The ntfs partition should mount.

If you don't have windows, open a terminal, and run (as root) the second last option in the error message. (the 'force' option).
I had a similar problem with suse and it said to use fsck with the -force option. This way at least the disk is checked for errors.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome to Linuxforums.
Have you tried to manually mount the drive as the error message shows?
First make sure the mount point exist or create one. I changed it, so that there is no HD part anymore, just to simplify things.

sudo mkdir /media/Vesperia

Then mount it.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Vesperia -o force

If you get no error, then it was successful and your files will be at /media/Vesperia

[ILContent]

Ahh thank you both.
I am not familiar with using a terminal so when i tried before i may have made some errors somewhere... heh.

It work now