Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Thu Dec 4 16:21:27 EST 2014


Safest thing would be to get a spare disk, back up everything from the SSD
to the spare disk, then reformat the SSD so Win7 is happy, then restore
everything from the spare back to the SSD.

It might make sense to replace it with a NAS drive so the two OSes aren't
accessing the drive at such a low level that corruption is likely to occur.
Connect to the NAS with an Ethernet cable and access it via NFS and Samba.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have an SSD formatted to NTFS.  I had intended to use it between linux and
> Win7 as a backup.  It worked for a while in both OS.  Yesterday Win7 asked
> if I wanted to repair the disk.  Since there are directories and file names
> that are not windows safe, I declined.
>
> Later in the day, I reconnected the disk to my win7 machine, and the
> computer could not recognize the drive.
>
> *Location is not available*
> E:\ is not accessible
> The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
>
> It asked if I wanted to format the disk.  Umm, no.
>
> Later in the evening, I connected my SSD to my linux laptop.  It opened
> the SSD and files within it without problem.
>
> I looked at the disk in gparted, and it showed a non-descriptive !, and
> something about not being able to read it, suggesting I install ntfsprogs
> and ntfs-3g.  However, ntfs-3g is already on my laptop (and clearly
> running, along with fuse).  *The "!" is just that the disk is unmounted.*
> gparted also showed a green box, and a key icon next to the SDD name
> /dev/sdc1.
>
> Is this fixable?  Am I headed to uncertain doom?  Seriously, is there a
> way to get back to having win7 recognize the disk again?  Or should I get
> yet another disk, transfer the cross-platform compatible files and
> directories and start all over again?  Should I use a different file format?
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
> Ubuntu 14.10.  i7, 32GB Ram, 240GB SSD main drive, Crucial 1TB SSD in
> Inatech USB3 housing.
>
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