Help needed - Unable to mount USB disk
Hello,
I have a USB disk, which was connected to my laptop, when the laptop froze (I think it was due to memory issues, don't think it was related to the disk since I was not even using it at the time). I rebooted the machine, and it all works, but the disk is now unable to mount, I have tried different usb ports and always get the "unable to mount" error :(
GParted doesn't seem to help (I tried the "check" option but it did nothing as well).
Any ideas how to access the contents again? I had a lot of stuff on that disk that I would not want to lose.
Thanks!!
In GNOME Disks (gnome-disk-utility in Trisquel's repository), you can select the USB device in the left panel. If you click on the button with the three stacked dots (at the right of the title of the window) and choose "SMART Data & Self-Test...", you may be reassured (or not) about the health of your disk. Back on the main window, you can click on the partition and then on the button with gears to "Check Filesystem..." and "Repair Filesystem...".
Hey!
First, thanks for the reply MagicBanana, it might be important for future reference even to other people.
I will also share, that in the meantime I was able to get the issue fixed by running "sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1"
If it helps other people, I leave here my info.
And now to double backup some data... :)