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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.
The fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107837440 bytes, 976773120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x003a4817
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976773119 976771072 465.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. When I try to mount, I get the following message:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
mount: /media/usb-drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
If I specify exfat in particular
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive -t exfat
FUSE exfat 1.2.8
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.
Is the filesystem not exFAT?
Moreover, when I try to look at it in gparted:
I am not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
18.04 mount gparted exfat
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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.
The fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107837440 bytes, 976773120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x003a4817
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976773119 976771072 465.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. When I try to mount, I get the following message:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
mount: /media/usb-drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
If I specify exfat in particular
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive -t exfat
FUSE exfat 1.2.8
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.
Is the filesystem not exFAT?
Moreover, when I try to look at it in gparted:
I am not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
18.04 mount gparted exfat
edited 2 days ago
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asked Mar 12 at 21:51
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You are trying to mount/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount/dev/sdb1.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
And I don't think it'sexfat. Most likely it'sntfs.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and runchkdskon the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.
– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
1
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47
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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.
The fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107837440 bytes, 976773120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x003a4817
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976773119 976771072 465.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. When I try to mount, I get the following message:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
mount: /media/usb-drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
If I specify exfat in particular
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive -t exfat
FUSE exfat 1.2.8
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.
Is the filesystem not exFAT?
Moreover, when I try to look at it in gparted:
I am not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
18.04 mount gparted exfat
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
asked Mar 12 at 21:51
basilbasil
93119
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.
The fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107837440 bytes, 976773120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x003a4817
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976773119 976771072 465.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. When I try to mount, I get the following message:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
mount: /media/usb-drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
If I specify exfat in particular
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive -t exfat
FUSE exfat 1.2.8
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.
Is the filesystem not exFAT?
Moreover, when I try to look at it in gparted:
I am not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
18.04 mount gparted exfat
18.04 mount gparted exfat
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
asked Mar 12 at 21:51
basilbasil
93119
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
asked Mar 12 at 21:51
basilbasil
93119
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
edited 2 days ago
Philippe Delteil
6361522
6361522
asked Mar 12 at 21:51
basilbasil
93119
asked Mar 12 at 21:51
basilbasil
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asked Mar 12 at 21:51
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You are trying to mount/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount/dev/sdb1.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
And I don't think it'sexfat. Most likely it'sntfs.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and runchkdskon the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.
– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
1
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47
|
show 3 more comments
You are trying to mount/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount/dev/sdb1.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
And I don't think it'sexfat. Most likely it'sntfs.
– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and runchkdskon the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.
– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
1
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47
You are trying to mount
/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount /dev/sdb1.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
You are trying to mount
/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount /dev/sdb1.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
And I don't think it's
exfat. Most likely it's ntfs.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
And I don't think it's
exfat. Most likely it's ntfs.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and run
chkdsk on the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and run
chkdsk on the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
1
1
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47
|
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Firstly, an easier way of mounting is to use:
mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
This way you are spared the magical incantations of specifying a partition type.
Secondly, you may have errors on the drive and/or the partition table may be damaged. This happened to me when using dd to erase the first MB of a USB on /dev/sdd and I accidentally used /dev/sdb. This wiped out the first 1 MB of my second hard disk containing the MBR (Master Boot Record) and partition table.
TestDisk can be downloaded here and has versions for Windows and Linux. It goes through every byte of your hard drive to analyze what partition type it is and rebuilds the partition tables. I used TestDisk to successfully recover all my data.
From the website, TestDisk can:
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
answered 2 days ago
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Firstly, an easier way of mounting is to use:
mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
This way you are spared the magical incantations of specifying a partition type.
Secondly, you may have errors on the drive and/or the partition table may be damaged. This happened to me when using dd to erase the first MB of a USB on /dev/sdd and I accidentally used /dev/sdb. This wiped out the first 1 MB of my second hard disk containing the MBR (Master Boot Record) and partition table.
TestDisk can be downloaded here and has versions for Windows and Linux. It goes through every byte of your hard drive to analyze what partition type it is and rebuilds the partition tables. I used TestDisk to successfully recover all my data.
From the website, TestDisk can:
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
answered 2 days ago
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Firstly, an easier way of mounting is to use:
mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
This way you are spared the magical incantations of specifying a partition type.
Secondly, you may have errors on the drive and/or the partition table may be damaged. This happened to me when using dd to erase the first MB of a USB on /dev/sdd and I accidentally used /dev/sdb. This wiped out the first 1 MB of my second hard disk containing the MBR (Master Boot Record) and partition table.
TestDisk can be downloaded here and has versions for Windows and Linux. It goes through every byte of your hard drive to analyze what partition type it is and rebuilds the partition tables. I used TestDisk to successfully recover all my data.
From the website, TestDisk can:
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
answered 2 days ago
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
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Firstly, an easier way of mounting is to use:
mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
This way you are spared the magical incantations of specifying a partition type.
Secondly, you may have errors on the drive and/or the partition table may be damaged. This happened to me when using dd to erase the first MB of a USB on /dev/sdd and I accidentally used /dev/sdb. This wiped out the first 1 MB of my second hard disk containing the MBR (Master Boot Record) and partition table.
TestDisk can be downloaded here and has versions for Windows and Linux. It goes through every byte of your hard drive to analyze what partition type it is and rebuilds the partition tables. I used TestDisk to successfully recover all my data.
From the website, TestDisk can:
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
answered 2 days ago
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
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Firstly, an easier way of mounting is to use:
mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb-drive
This way you are spared the magical incantations of specifying a partition type.
Secondly, you may have errors on the drive and/or the partition table may be damaged. This happened to me when using dd to erase the first MB of a USB on /dev/sdd and I accidentally used /dev/sdb. This wiped out the first 1 MB of my second hard disk containing the MBR (Master Boot Record) and partition table.
TestDisk can be downloaded here and has versions for Windows and Linux. It goes through every byte of your hard drive to analyze what partition type it is and rebuilds the partition tables. I used TestDisk to successfully recover all my data.
From the website, TestDisk can:
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
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You are trying to mount
/dev/sdb, that is wrong. You need ot mount/dev/sdb1.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 21:59
And I don't think it's
exfat. Most likely it'sntfs.– Pilot6
Mar 12 at 22:00
I get the same message either way. Says "ntfs signature is missing"
– basil
Mar 12 at 22:37
Boot into Windows, or connect the drive to a Windows machine, and try and run
chkdskon the drive. Do NOT run ntfsfix in Ubuntu on it.– heynnema
Mar 12 at 23:47
1
Not if it's ntfs. Since you supplied such little information... it's difficult to make other recommendations. What was on the drive? Where was it used? Did it mount in Ubuntu before? Do you have backups of what used to be on the drive?
– heynnema
Mar 13 at 19:47