Please excuse me for restarting this thread, but the other was quite long and there has been a slight delay from my side due to personal circumstances. I have done as Jan suggested, which is to connect the HDD to my Linux machine and enter DMESG. This is what shows: [ 66.672060] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci [ 67.100075] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci [ 67.233229] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=07a8 [ 67.233233] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 67.233236] usb 1-1: Product: My Passport 07A8 [ 67.233239] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital [ 67.233241] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 575845314134333137303433 [ 67.284711] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 67.284800] scsi4 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 [ 67.284878] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 68.284758] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 07A8 1042 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 68.285250] scsi 4:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 1042 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 68.285495] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 68.285643] scsi 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 13 [ 68.289487] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Spinning up disk... [ 69.292047] .ready [ 69.311994] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 69.314000] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 69.314004] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 53 00 10 08 [ 69.315366] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [ 69.315369] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 69.320747] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [ 69.320750] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 69.321144] ses 4:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device [ 69.332119] sdc: sdc1 [ 69.335236] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [ 69.335240] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 69.335243] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk Assuning the drive ID is 07A8, I then entered fdisk /dev/07a8 but it was not found. The HDD shows in My Comp, but cannot be mounted of formatted. The following message appears: Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /media/username/Western HDD- WORKING: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdc1" "/media/username/Western HDD- WORKING"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing. ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details. At this stage, I would be happy just to be able to format the drive back to NTSC. Any advice on how to do so from here would be most appreciated. David King
Formatting Corrupted WD HDD
Started by ●August 19, 2014
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
You have bad sectors in window fat area: Might be usable with Linux, probably not for window.> ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error > Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
Hi David, On 8/19/2014 7:49 PM, David King wrote:> At this stage, I would be happy just to be able to format the drive > back to NTSC. > > Any advice on how to do so from here would be most appreciated.Why don't you just try formatting it under Linux (pick any filesystem type -- UFS, EXT2, etc.) and verify that Linux is "comfortable" with the disk. At the very least, get it to a consistent state. *Then*, try to NTFS format it (under Linux). And, finally, see if Windows will play nice... (You'll have to build a partition table, first)
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:07:37 -0700 (PDT), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com wrote:>You have bad sectors in window fat area: Might be usable with Linux, probably not for window. > >> ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error >> Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output errorIs that actually a hardware failure, or as result of a corrputed file structure? If the former, could it have been caused by the problem described in my original post, eg. switching the drive back and forth incorrectly between Linux and Windows machines? David King
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:14:00 -0700, Don Y <this@is.not.me.com> wrote:>Why don't you just try formatting it under Linux (pick any filesystem >type -- UFS, EXT2, etc.) and verify that Linux is "comfortable" with >the disk. At the very least, get it to a consistent state. >I would like to but Linux will not mount the HDD. Is there a way to format or re-partition without mounting? David King
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:46:51 PM UTC-7, David King wrote:> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:07:37 -0700 (PDT), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com > wrote:> >You have bad sectors in window fat area: Might be usable with Linux, probably not for window. > > >> ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error > >> Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error > Is that actually a hardware failure, or as result of a corrputed file > structure?Seem like a hard failure.> If the former, could it have been caused by the problem described in > my original post, eg. switching the drive back and forth incorrectly > between Linux and Windows machines?No, but pulling out (or powering down) the drive while read/write would do it.
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
> I would like to but Linux will not mount the HDD.> Is there a way to format or re-partition without mounting?Have you try fdisk /dev/sdb? Be sure not to do it to you main drive.
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
Hi David, On 8/19/2014 8:49 PM, David King wrote:> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:14:00 -0700, Don Y<this@is.not.me.com> wrote: > > >> Why don't you just try formatting it under Linux (pick any filesystem >> type -- UFS, EXT2, etc.) and verify that Linux is "comfortable" with >> the disk. At the very least, get it to a consistent state. > > I would like to but Linux will not mount the HDD. > > Is there a way to format or re-partition without mounting?I don't run Linux :> Under NetBSD, you would build a partition table using fdisk(8) then create a filesystem using newfs(8). Neither requires the disk to be mounted (as it doesn't yet have a file system *or* partition table -- nothing to "mount"!!)
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
On 08/19/2014 07:49 PM, David King wrote:> The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing. > ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error > Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error > NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a...> At this stage, I would be happy just to be able to format the drive > back to NTSC. > > Any advice on how to do so from here would be most appreciated.Try something like this http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810&sid=3&lang=en And http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=218&sid=171&lang=en
Reply by ●August 20, 20142014-08-20
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:49:00 +1000, David King <dking@interphase.com> wrote:>I would like to but Linux will not mount the HDD. > >Is there a way to format or re-partition without mounting?Sure. By definition, a drive has to be partitioned and have a file system on it before it can be mounted. If you're on a character mode Linux installation, the command is parted which must be run as root. Not for the faint of heart. If you're using a GUI like Ubuntu, invoke Gparted from applications->system tools ->administration->Gparted. It has a nice GUI that kinda holds your hand. A little bit at least. Just make sure you don't do anything to /dev/sda, your boot drive. But before you do anything else, read this page http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-corrupted-windows-ntfs-filesystem-ubuntu/ Ubuntu can fix just about any problem with an NTFS file system. You can probably salvage your data by following instructions on that page. John John DeArmond http://www.neon-john.com http://www.fluxeon.com Tellico Plains, Occupied TN See website for email address