Cant mount NTFS USB, ntfs signature is missing

verdict22322 · 2021-08-29 19:29:27

i tried running: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/usb
and i tried running: sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /media/usb

all of them produced:

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdc1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

And yes i tried to do dev/sdc instead of dev/sdc1 but it doesnt work.

Here is my gdisk output: https://imgur.com/GKbu5Kj

And my fdisk output: https://imgur.com/3Oi2G3j

Last edited by verdict22322 (2021-08-29 19:30:51)

V1del · 2021-08-29 19:48:52

Is it actually NTFS and not FAT or exFAT or so? Can you mount it without problems on windows? You might have to run a chkdsk over it.

verdict22322 · 2021-09-02 08:43:45

Its not, i recently reformated it to NTFS.

V1del · 2021-09-02 08:57:09

How and with which utility? And as mentioned can you mount it on Windows? If you're unlucky then maybe the stick is toast. (... In case this is what you're wondering, ntfs-3g as such works fine I have a Windows ntfs disk that works without issue)

seth · 2021-09-02 14:11:53

sudo file -s /dev/sdc1

Also Testdisk can find partiotions.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_r … d_PhotoRec

verdict22322 · 2021-09-02 14:18:27

V1del wrote:

How and with which utility? And as mentioned can you mount it on Windows? If you're unlucky then maybe the stick is toast. (... In case this is what you're wondering, ntfs-3g as such works fine I have a Windows ntfs disk that works without issue)

Thing is it worked fine before i reformated it into ntfs, i was able to mount it. USB is also recently purchased. I used parted to reformat it to ntfs.

seth · 2021-09-02 14:21:42

Parted handles partitions, I'm less than sure that it does filesystems and just setting the partition type does essentially nothing.
mkfs.ntfs "formats" to NTFS (which is technically wrong either - it creates the filesystem)

loqs · 2021-09-02 14:27:26

parted removed filesystem operation support in version 2.4 see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p= … b;f=README

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#1 2021-08-29 19:29:27

Cant mount NTFS USB, ntfs signature is missing

#2 2021-08-29 19:48:52

Re: Cant mount NTFS USB, ntfs signature is missing

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