External Hard Drive Won't Mount on Karmic, Macbook 2,1
 

Hi!

I'm hoping that someone can help me manually mount or fix my external hard drive. I can't format the drive because I have important data on it. The drive is 1TB Select USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive from Iomega. When I plug it in, a message appears that reads:

"Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so".

Also, I plugged in the drive, typed the command "sudo fdisk -l" in the terminal, and received the following:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d1620

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 977 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda2 * 1 13995 112413086 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 13995 14594 4806727+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 121560 121561 8192+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 1 121560 976426672 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I have no idea what it all means?

I've been researching through forums and Google searches, but I haven't come across anything helpful yet.

Thank you for your help!

The partitions look ok, it's just GPT that fdisk doesn't understand, meaning you should not partition this disk with the fdisk utility, use parted for that purpose.

Anyway, the partitions are not the problem here, looks more like a filesystem issue. Do you know what filesystem is on /dev/sdb2 ?
You can run a check on it with 'sudo fsck /dev/sdb2'

Problem solved! Thank you!
 

Thank you so much for your response and help!

I ran the command that you suggested, 'sudo fsck /dev/sdb2' and typed 'y' (yes) to all the prompts. It fixed the problem, and I'm able to mount the hard drive again! Plus, my data is all there!

Thank you again!