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mselema 04-10-2011 04:57 AM
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

Nylex 04-10-2011 06:14 AM
Can you post the exact command line you're using to mount the filesystem and the exact error message please?

farzadfedora 04-10-2011 07:39 AM
do you have ntfs-3g installed?


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