Ok here's my fxxking problem: I was transferring files across to my portable hdd when the usb connector came out, some how this gave me this
messege. Is there any way to fix this any help would be great.


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You want help. You do not "need" help.
How about remounting the drive and retry the copy operation?

I can't copy files because the portable hdd has a ntfs file which only allows read write. I get an
error saying i/o error when transferring files.

Plug it into a Windows machine and tell it to repair the filesystem.

Don't have access to Windows at the moment is there anything I can do

How about not using NTFS?
What's the reason for that?

It worked, I didn't know about read write permissions causes problems

I'd format it to ext4 if it's not going to be used on a Windows system.

I agree habitual but first things first get my data off my portable hdd then format ext4.

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Yes, First things first.
I'm not sure what Linux can do for that partition, it's been a loooong day.
gParted "check" function maybe?

Sorry, just trying to grab attention. The content is very important to me. will remember next time

The linux error says run windows chkdsk and then reboot in windows twice. From there you can pull your data off in Windows.

In my case. My bike tuner Windows 10 laptop comes in to save the day. If no access to a Windows computer.
Oh well. That is what you get for leaving the "H" out of your thread title. It just sux to be you today.

If you don't need to share data with a Windows system, don't use NTFS.
If your data is important to you, make a backup.

As for recovery, use a Windows system, after all NTFS is a Windows filesystem. If you don't have access to a Windows system, all I can say is good luck.

I believe that is what is meant by "backup, backup, backup".

My backups have backups and that has a backup.

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