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How to fix a corrupted hard drive
How to fix a corrupted hard drive









how to fix a corrupted hard drive

Note: This is a stale post, so I assume it's already resolved, but here are my thoughts in case they help someone else: Is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2įilesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock

how to fix a corrupted hard drive

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2įilesystem. I wrote something wrong here, however here the output of fsck /dev/sbd is sudo fsck /dev/sdbĮxt2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-blockįsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks.įsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb Partition table entries are not in disk order I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes The command sudo fdisk -l gives sudo fdisk -lĭisk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Please comment any output that you would like to see and I will add it to my question. I tried reformatting it using Disk Utility, but it gives me an error message,Īnd Gparted would hang on the "Scanning devices" step infinitely. Now, when I try to access the hard drive, it doesn't show up anymore in Nautilus.

how to fix a corrupted hard drive how to fix a corrupted hard drive

I unplugged the drive without safely removing it first.Īt first a pop up was asking me to use a Windows OS to run the chkdsk /f command, however, in the effort to keep using a Linux OS I used the ntfsfix command on the ubuntu terminal I have a Western Digital 1TB hard drive which had a NTFS partition. I would like to reformat my hard disk, and if possible recover the (somewhat unimportant) contents if possible.











How to fix a corrupted hard drive