[HLUG] mounting an external HD

[graham]

Thanks Mo, I will first try to get this sorted on a friend's windows OS 
and use the forcing option as a last resort. My system asked me if I 
wanted to force the opening but I was worried about the effect of that.

Graham

Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
> I get this problem a lot with NTFS formated HDD's. There is a quick and
> dirty way of doing it, which you basically have to forcefully mount the HDD,
> using something like what is posted here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=694301
>
> Hope thats of some help.
>
> Mo
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:04 PM, graham <grhmc at lavabit.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't have a useful Windows system (I tried an old laptop with 2000me)
>> so I'm stuck with the force option as in my original  question.  Is
>> there a real risk?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> Paul Stenning wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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