Error accessing my internal SSD and HDD since yesterday

[Cphusion]

@Cphusion

So my guess would be something happened on the the ntfs filesystem on that drive that made the user land ntfs driver unable to read that filesystem, because normally if ntfs-3g is installed you should be able to mount an ntfs filesystem without issues.

Maybe you can still try running ntfsfix from Linux and see if you can mount the drives again from EndeavourOS since you can still access the filesystem from Windows.

[nicknick]

@Cphusion

Because of your original shared error and the other one it sounded like a corrupted filesystem.

https://linovox.com/how-to-fix-failed-to-mount-wrong-fs-type-bad-option-bad-superblock-on-linux/

So my guess would be something happened on the the ntfs filesystem on that drive that made the user land ntfs driver unable to read that filesystem, because normally if ntfs-3g is installed you should be able to mount an ntfs filesystem without issues. If you are planning on having Linux as your only os, then I would advice you to reformat those drives as ext4(or btrfs) but that would require you to have another backup location for you to copy your files to. Your Steam Library will thank you if you do that.

Yes, that’s what I was thinking. Although ext4 is compatible with ntfs, it can become corrupted as just happened to me. So, if I format all my drives as ext4, this shouldn’t happen again, correct?

So, I have thought about transferring my files from ntfs to ext4, but since it is not possible because it is damaged, I will upload my files to google drive, and then I will format all the drives to ext4 and download the files from google drive.

I have read somewhere that moving or copying files from Windows to Linux and vice versa can create errors in file permissions in Linux (or something like that), and break the files (I don’t know about this). But downloading them from Google Drive, this should not happen.

@Cphusion

Maybe you can still try running ntfsfix from Linux and see if you can mount the drives again from EndeavourOS since you can still access the filesystem from Windows.

Yes, that’s a good idea too, although now I’m afraid to move files between ext4 and ntfs x’D

[thefrog]

@nicknick

So, if I format all my drives as ext4, this shouldn’t happen again, correct?

That depends. The thing with NTFS is that its notorious for being a bitch if its not unmounted cleanly. Even when you shutdown the system the correct way sometimes the NTFS does not unmount cleanly I’ve seen this a few times over the years with users of NTFS. as @Cphusion stated Hirens is the best option for needing to fix NTFS as the tools are more native.

@nicknick

but since it is not possible because it is damaged,

There is no physical Damage its filesystem corruption. First try to repair the disk then worry about transferring files and format.

@nicknick

I have read somewhere that moving or copying files from Windows to Linux and vice versa can create errors in file permissions in Linux

That depends on how you copy them. to do a basic copy yes permissions will get messed up do to the fact that NTFS does not respect Unix file permissions. If you are going from Windows (NTFS) To LInux (EXT4) You need not worry about the permission issue.

[Cphusion]

@thefrog Answered both of your questions already.

It would still be interesting to know if ntfsfix allows you to access your ntfs formatted drives from Linux again. But hopefully you will be able to get your current ntfs formated drives reformatted with ext4(or btrfs) and then have a better experience because of using a Linux native filesystem.

[nicknick]

Thank you all for all your help friends!

I know I should have tried to fix the hard drives with the linux commands, or with the windows commands, but I had other problems with EOS since I updated from kde 5.0 to 6.0.

So I did a new installation in 5 minutes, and took the opportunity to format these 2 hard drives and my other external hard drives to ext4, since I was afraid of losing my files.

Now all my hard drives are ext4, I managed to upload my copies from Windows to Google Drive, and then download them to my new EOS installation and the ext4 hard drives.

I thought about using btrfs, but I didn’t know what advantages this format had, and if I could take advantage of it for the use I plan to give them (backup and install games), so I decided to use ext4, since it is the file system it uses EOS. It seems good and I have heard that it is secure and the “standard” for most Linux distros.

All of your answers helped me a lot and are the correct answer, but unfortunately I can only mark 1 as correct!

Thanks again to all friends, and I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused!