[SOLVED] External drive f/s corrupted?

woodmaster · 05-19-2010, 01:39 PM

All of a sudden, my external drive won't show any files:
the attached screenshots show, what the drive appears as in nautilus and the results of running the program testdisk from the Ubuntu 9.10 repo's.

woodmaster · 05-19-2010, 01:40 PM

last screenshot...it would only allow 3 at a time

brucehinrichs · 05-19-2010, 01:46 PM

Do you use this drive with windoze? If so, it may not have been unmounted properly from windoze. If this is the case, your best bet is to mount it again with windoze, run chkdsk, unmount it properly (safely remove hardware), then remount in linux.

woodmaster · 05-19-2010, 03:02 PM

don't use windows...I ran photorec and it seems to be working. I have to install a bigger HDD to fit the files on thou, so had to stop it partway. IDK what happened to the drive though. It looks like corrupted fs. It may not have unmounted properly although I didn't shut the computer down strangely or anything. Just use normal shutdown buttons. The External is never unplugged either. I was booted into Puppy 5.0 prior to noticing the error...I wonder if an error occured in that shutdown?

woodmaster · 05-19-2010, 03:03 PM

gonna call it solved since I am recovering my files