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USB hdd not accessible... [SOLVED]
« on: December 17, 2009, 04:02:44 PM »
Hi

My USB hdd contain a video folder which I cannot see anything in. But in Windows it is full of stuff.  :o

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 04:11:40 PM »
fat or ntfs?
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 04:15:07 PM »
Hi

ntfs

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2009, 04:29:38 PM »
Do you have all ntfs stuff installed?

ntfs-3g
ntfs-config
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What kind of video files? .mov, .avi, .mkv...? Does this happen only with this HDD or also with others?
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 04:30:39 PM »
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2009, 08:44:19 AM »
Hi

Thanks for reply. I installed ntfs-config. And the folder holds all kinds of video formats,avi,flv,mov..The USB hdd is 1Tb. Now the problem had grown even worse - now I can not access the drive at all. - Even as root.  :o

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2009, 08:48:30 AM »
If you are using KDE3, try this.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,66493.0.html

I am not sure if its the same problem.
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2009, 09:46:06 AM »
Hi

I installed GParted and ran the repair option therein and it went ok. But still I can not access the drive even as root. I am denied I have not the right it says ! As root !?  :o

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2009, 09:48:37 AM »
Quote from: OleWilly on December 18, 2009, 09:46:06 AM
Hi

I installed GParted and ran the repair option therein and it went ok. But still I can not access the drive even as root. I am denied I have not the right it says ! As root !?  :o

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Has this drive ever been used on a Windows system?
If so, is there a chance that compressions and/or encryption were enabled?
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2009, 09:57:35 AM »
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Yes. I am using dual booting with Win XP Pro.

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2009, 10:03:01 AM »
OK.

From XP, can you determine if compression and/or encryption are being used (if not *DO NOT* enable them!)
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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2009, 04:19:29 PM »
Hi
 
..And then I booted from live cd. And everything is there. :o - I can not mount the drive. I have not the rights it  says. Something must have happened. But I do not know what.
I can still see the content in Win XP Pro  and from live cd.

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Re: USB hdd folder not accessible
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2009, 06:08:21 AM »
Hi

I wonder if there is a way to fix this problem, besides from doing a reinstall. I see the drive from Win XP Pro and
also the drive is mounted from a live cd and I can see everything which is there. When I do a boot-up in verbose mode the only thing which is in red when it comes to : fuse : failed to access mount point /media/disk no such..  :o I am stuck.

Here is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=8864592a-6307-4d7d-af63-d97d3c7e4dc4   /   ext3   defaults   1   1
#Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=4e3df53a-0042-49d2-a580-2d42abf47777   /home   ext3   defaults   1   2
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=D27431CF7431B6D7   /media/Iomega\040HDD   ntfs-3g   defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=da   0   0
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=FEB8E7E2B8E79803   /media/disk   ntfs-3g   defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=da   0   0
none   /proc   proc   defaults   0   0
#Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=a37fec86-22b1-481a-ac75-49fc4c6f5562   swap   swap   defaults   0   0
none   /dev/pts   devpts   mode=0620   0   0

And here is my mtab:

/dev/sda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0

Prepairing for a reinstall.. (I would rather not)  :(

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Re: USB hdd not accessible
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2009, 11:10:01 PM »
Hi

Think I have found the reason. While I have been using the disk in Windoze, 3 libraries have been made which are unable to delete. Even in administrator mode. Furthermore there is those two files io.sys and msdos.sys.
I can not delete those things with del /f. So what can I do now ?

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Re: USB hdd not accessible
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2009, 12:01:04 AM »
Hi OleWilly,

It sounds to me like the folder you are trying to mount the file system to does not exist.  When you look at the /media folder, is there a file folder named "disk" inside of it?

I personally avoid having any mount points in fstab reside in the /media folder because udev can change the contents of /media as it needs to mount and unmount removable file systems.  I think it is better to have the file systems that you have listed in fstab be mounted to a folder in the /mnt directory instead, because the contents of that folder are static.

Hope that helps.
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