• @[email protected]
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    11 month ago

    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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      21 month 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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        21 month 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.

          • @[email protected]
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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.