See the contents of external hard drive...
Hi,
I just got an external hard drive from a friend, that was attached to a linux box for backups. I suspect that there has been no backup done on the external drive since I am not able to mount it at all.
When I load the modules usb-scsi, usb-storage etc., and then try to mount it, it gives an error mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, too many mounted file systems.
when i do a "fdisk -l", I get the the current specs of the external drive:
it shows properly that it is a 200GB disk, but shows it as a Win FAT 32 file system.
But if I do a "df -h /dev/sda1", it shows the capacity as some 39G with 35GB used...
Since it looks as if it has a FAT32 filesystem and not ext3, I was not able to see the contents at all. Also, I tried running it in Windows, where it told me that the disk is not formatted. Is there any way I can check if something is written on the external drive, or is it completely empty?
Thanks,
Manudath
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