dear community
error mounting /dev/sdb1 - not possible to mount a external HDD
see the image
well this allmost drives me nuts. i have no idea what we can do here ?
is the drive NTFS?
If external drives are not properly unmounted before removing you will see this error a lot. You can try to run a disk check and clear out the dirty flags however i’m not exactly sure how to do that as I do not use NTFS I know i’ve seem instructions around here how to maybe someone like @pebcak can be of better assistance
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hi there - good day dear theFrog,
many thanks for the quick reply - well guess so - this is NTFS.
Well i will try to find out more
My mate gets this error a lot on his external NTFS drive and uses gnome disks and I think from memory fix disk
If you have Windows you can do a check disk in that and it should remove them. (Hiren’s Boot CD if you don’t) I think the program name on linux is ntfs3 or something similar doing a man on that should give you the appropriate flags. I saw a similar situation here not long ago but can’t find the post. Has something do to with age but I don’t remember what. 