Greetings fellow users, i am back once again. To cut things short, i have a 8TB drive that had 2 partitions on them, one ext4 one ntfs, i wanted to put it back to its one partition state, before i was able to do any of that i noticed i couldnt mount the ntfs partition. (it always comes back with th…

I have a suggestion maybe you can run chkdsk on the ntfs partition with a hirens boot usb? If it’s available on usb? https://www.hirensbootcd.org/usb-booting/

[image] petsam: sudo inxi -SCdpaz --usb sudo inxi -SCdpaz --usb [sudo] password for saeki: System: Kernel: 5.17.1-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d881a051-22f0-45cc-852d-85e307a4cf33 rw quiet loglevel=3 …

i do know testdisk however what may i actually do with it to help? Edit: it appears i can at least access the partition in some way with it since i can list the files on it.

Perhaps the FUSE deiver can mount the drive. sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd2 /mnt/ntfs

[image] mrvictory: sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd2 /mnt/ntfs sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs [saeki@saeki ~]$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd2 /mnt/ntfs ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error Fa…

What does sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd return?

[image] AmandaONeill: it appears i can at least access the partition in some way with it since i can list the files on it. If this is possible, then [image] Not able to move/delete files from HDD Newbie Open a terminal. Run sudo mkdir /mnt/{sda1,sda2,sda5,sda6} -p…

[image] mrvictory: sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd [saeki@saeki ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd [sudo] password for saeki: smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.17.1-arch1-1] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read Device Identity faile…

This will work after successful conversion of NTFS to ext4.

Well, im trying to save my files before converting it back. and as thankful as i am for that link im not sure i can do that securely without messing my system up like last time.

After you will manage to create the backup, then directly refer to the topic link which I had shared yesterday. That should help because your problem will then overlap with the situation which I faced then.