• @[email protected]
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      External SSD in an enclosure. So, it says it has a bad sector or bad generic error. I’ll put it on my wife’s windows laptop and do a chkdmsk /f/v/r and it cleans nothing up. And then it’ll work one time in my Linux mint. When I use it on my windows 10 living room machine then back to the mint computer - same error.

      As long as I don’t put it into a windows computer Linux mint is happy

      • @horse_battery_staple
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        22 months ago

        Sounds like NTFS journaling errors.

        Assuming the external disk is /dev/sdb

        sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

        It also offers a specific option to clear the “dirty” flag on the partition:

        sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb1

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Oooo I’ll try that when I get out of this parking lot. And yea /dev/sda1. Also yes NTFS, 2tb with too much shit to swap around to use a different format.

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              I could kiss you. I won’t. But I could. I might have to make a auto script to run this every time like I do with my wifi on suspend. But that did fix it. Thank you for taking the time to help me.

              The -d got me where I needed.

              I’ll pass along your kindness when my time comes.