Today, I had problems with my Windows hard drive. The operating system (XP) refused to start up and was complaining about corrupt system files. I wanted to back up my files in case things got worse. Luckily, I have a USB external hard drive enclosure and an Ubuntu Linux netbook so this is what I did:
- I took out the hard drive from my Windows laptop.
- I inserted it into my Akasa Integral External Enclosure and plugged it via USB into my Ubuntu netbook.
- Ubuntu wasn't about to mount it automatically and gave me an error saying that the hard drive had problems and that I should "force" it to mount using a command.
- I opened a terminal and typed the following commands to mount the disk manually:
$ sudo mkdir /media/disk
$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/disk -o force
$ cd /media/disk
I was then able to browse the contents of the Windows drive and back up important files.
Finally, I unmounted the drive as follows:
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
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