[HLUG] mounting an external HD

[Paul Stenning]

Hi Graham,

If you have ready access to the Windows system the best thing to do 
would be to run chkdsk with the /F option on the drive from there.  It 
may be that Windows has marked the disk as potentially containing errors 
and Linus is picking up on that.

Best regards,
Paul Stenning

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graham wrote:
> Hi all
> I put a backup of my Linux system on the same HD as a backup of a widows 
> system. Now trying to see the contents with my Linux OS seems to be 
> impossible. I get this message:
> 
> LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': 
> Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.
> If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for your 
> own responsibility eg type on the command line
> mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/sdb1/media/New Volume -0 force
> or add the option to the relevant line in the /etc/fstab file:
> /dev/sdb1/media/New Volume ntfs-3g force 0 0
> 
> Questions:
> What risk is attached to using the force option for mounting the HD?
> If I do mount it will I then be able to look at both backups?
> 
> thanks
> Graham
> 
> 


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