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Josiah Bristow

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Registered: 2025-07-09

Posts: 1

Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1

Hi all,
today, I plugged my external hard drive into my Windows laptop, but when i use it on my Archlinux laptop again, it can't be mounted and nautilus threw this error
```
Unable to access "512 GB Volume“

Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/josiah/B8F48568F4829A8: wrongfs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
```
How can I fix it?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,733

Re: Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1

Run

dmesg -W

plug the disk in and post the output that generates.

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