• SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    External SSD in an enclosure. So, it says it has a bad sector or bad generic error. I’ll put it on my wife’s windows laptop and do a chkdmsk /f/v/r and it cleans nothing up. And then it’ll work one time in my Linux mint. When I use it on my windows 10 living room machine then back to the mint computer - same error.

    As long as I don’t put it into a windows computer Linux mint is happy

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      7 hours ago

      Sounds like NTFS journaling errors.

      Assuming the external disk is /dev/sdb

      sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

      It also offers a specific option to clear the “dirty” flag on the partition:

      sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb1

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        6 hours ago

        Oooo I’ll try that when I get out of this parking lot. And yea /dev/sda1. Also yes NTFS, 2tb with too much shit to swap around to use a different format.