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gostlimoss62

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Registered: 2026-02-06

Posts: 1

[SOLVED]mounting windows hard drive

i replaced my hdd with one that had a win11 instalation on it, and did a wipe of everything with "dd if=/dev/zero" ,but i cant get it to mount.

here is what appears:

❯mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sda /home/gostlimoss62/HDD
mount: /home/gostlimoss62/HDD: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

with my previous hdd i could mount it to /home/gostlimoss62/HDD.

❯sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda /home/gostlimoss62/HDD/
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda' 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?

❯ sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /home/gostlimoss62/HDD/
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2022.10.3 external FUSE 29 - Third Generation NTFS Driver
                Configuration type 7, XATTRS are on, POSIX ACLS are on

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2022 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Erik Larsson

Usage:    ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options:  ro (read-only mount), windows_names, uid=, gid=,
          umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=.
          Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Plugin path: /usr/lib/ntfs-3g

News, support and information:  https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/

❯ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1,82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: ST2000LM007-1R81
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

❯ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
NTFS signature is missing.
Trying the alternate boot sector
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.

there is no chkdsk

edit: i checked with chatgpt and it told me i deleted the partition.

Last edited by gostlimoss62 (2026-02-06 14:45:51)

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 1,982

Re: [SOLVED]mounting windows hard drive

when you wipe an entire drive you also wipe the partitions and filesystems with it - there just is nofhing to be mounted
also: one doesn't mount tge drive itself but filesystems within partitions
generate a new partition table (preferable gpt), create a partition and create a filessystem within that partition
don't worry - i once killed our family pc in the same way - about 25 years ago with win98

//edit

Last edited by gostlimoss62 (Today 15:45:51)

Today 15:45:13

sniped
also

i checked with chatgpt

don't do that - if you came here to ask for human knowledge and experience - stay here - if you wanna waste your time with AI don't waste ours

Last edited by cryptearth (2026-02-06 18:44:01)