SATA Laptop Drive wouldn't mount :(

manuleka · 05-16-2009, 08:07 PM

took a hard-drive of a laptop (ASUS G1S) and connect it to my pc

the drive is a 160GB SATA which was working fine when removed from laptop... on my pc Fedora wouldn't mount the drive

i get these two error messages

Code:

Unable to mount VistaOS

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken

Code:

Canot mount volume.

Unable to mount the volume 'VistaOS'.

Details
Error reading bootsector: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. It 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_eachabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.

TB0ne · 05-16-2009, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manuleka

took a hard-drive of a laptop (ASUS G1S) and connect it to my pc

the drive is a 160GB SATA which was working fine when removed from laptop... on my pc Fedora wouldn't mount the drive

i get these two error messages

Ok...where do you get those messages? From which file(s)/program(s)?? What version of Fedora are you using? What mount command are you using? Please provide complete information....

you should be able to (as root), type in "mount -t ntfs <mount point> <partition device>", such as "mount -t ntfs /media/vistadrive /dev/sdb2".

manuleka · 05-16-2009, 09:52 PM

i'm using Fedora 10 and just through nautilus i try rightclicking and choosing mount

the drive appears on nautilus so my pc recognizes it, i'm just not sure what's wrong with the drive for it not to be able to mount

thanks for any help

TB0ne · 05-16-2009, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manuleka

i'm using Fedora 10 and just through nautilus i try rightclicking and choosing mount

the drive appears on nautilus so my pc recognizes it, i'm just not sure what's wrong with the drive for it not to be able to mount

thanks for any help

Ok...did you read my first post?? The one where I gave you a mount command to try??? Did you try it?

manuleka · 05-16-2009, 11:45 PM

Code:

[root@acrylic ~]# mount -t ntfs /media/VistaOS /dev/sdb2
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/media/VistaOS': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 integrated FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver

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

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

Options:  ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, 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

Ntfs-3g news, support and information:  http://ntfs-3g.org

thanks

TB0ne · 05-17-2009, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manuleka

Code:

[root@acrylic ~]# mount -t ntfs /media/VistaOS /dev/sdb2
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/media/VistaOS': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 integrated FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver

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

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

Options:  ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, 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

Ntfs-3g news, support and information:  http://ntfs-3g.org

thanks

Ok...does the /media/VistaOS directory EXIST???? If not, make it.

manuleka · 05-17-2009, 05:21 PM

looks like the drive is mounted... it's on my desktop together with other drives/partitions... when i click to open it it reports

Code:

Could not display /media/VistaOS

there is no application installed for this file type

anyhow here's the result:

Code:

[root@acrylic ~]# mount -t ntfs /media/vdisk /dev/sdb2
Error opening '/media/vdisk': Is a directory
Failed to mount '/media/vdisk': Is a directory

saikee · 05-17-2009, 05:27 PM

Let's hope this is not a case of powering a laptop hard disk with a single head USB cable limiting by 0.5 Amp when the disk needs more juice from a twin head cable.

manuleka · 05-17-2009, 05:30 PM

nope... plugged into the mainboard using sata cable and psu through sata power...