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JDiPierro

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Registered: 2012-01-19

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Problems mounting external NTFS drive

Hey all,

I've got a 2TB External HD that I'm trying to mount and I'm having all sorts of trouble. It's formatted as NTFS because I use it with my Windows partition as well.
When I turn it on it does show up on the desktop as a removable drive should but when I try to open it I get:

Failed to open directory 'FS-Label'. Error stating file '/media/FS-Label/$RECYCLE.BIN': Input/output error.

If I then try to eject it I get an error that it's busy.
It IS mounting, in console I can cd into /media/FS-Label and access all the files, copied some of them to my HD, but I can't access it in Thunar. I tried to rm \$RECYCLE.BIN and I get the same error:

rm: cannot remove `$RECYCLE.BIN': Input/output error

I ran ntfsfix on the drive and it didn't seem to do anything:

[root@JD-ArchDesktop by-label]# ntfsfix /dev/sdg1
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdg1 was processed successfully.

Any thoughts on how I might be able to get this mounted?

Thanks!

Last edited by JDiPierro (2012-01-23 12:54:20)

gav989

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From: England

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 54

Re: [SOLVED] Problems mounting external NTFS drive

i had a similar problem with thunar not being able to access external drives (regardless of filesystem),
pacman -S gvfs gvfs-afc
seemed to fix the problem

i don't know what these packages do but could be worth a shot....

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hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: [SOLVED] Problems mounting external NTFS drive

@JDiPierro.Do you have ntfs-3g installed ?

Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-01-23 11:16:38)

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JDiPierro

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Registered: 2012-01-19

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Problems mounting external NTFS drive

Just marked it Solved. Turns out the device did have some errors with it. I ran a disk check in Windows overnight and it found and fixed errors and it mounts just fine in Arch now.