Monday, February 24, 2014

External USB WD Elements HDD Unmountable, Error


I'm using a 1 TB external HDD from Western Digital, Element series. Formatted as NTFS.
I was able to unable to mount the drive
And I got this error message and some instructions for windows system:

Error Code:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13:
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.


I can't even mount to check it.

Solution
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Solved it using ntfsprogs package
    sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs
    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1


*Replace the device path with your own error report's device path.

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