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Old 04-10-2011, 04:57 AM   #1
mselema
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my external hard drive can not mount on, it is of ntfs filesystem!


my external HDD of 750GB bring me an error during mounting!it asks me to get to windows and reboot twice or cmd chkdsk/f of which when i do it only option comes is to format it, i do not wanna format it coz it's with a lot of ma useful data!am using debian just asking if its possible to retrieve ma data from it using commands persay and what are those ?

thx
 
Old 04-10-2011, 06:14 AM   #2
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Can you post the exact command line you're using to mount the filesystem and the exact error message please?
 
Old 04-10-2011, 07:39 AM   #3
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do you have ntfs-3g installed?
 
  


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