Removable drive unclean after USB-rescan
I have tried to find a hint on the forum, but as USB gets filtered by the search I have not been able to find a pointer.
The situation: saving data from a failing drive by copying it to a removable disc. The removable disc is connected to the desktop via USB; the desktop runs a kubuntu 8.04 live disc.
While copying, Dolphin gives this popup: could not write to file /mnt/meuk/......
The removable drive that I mounted:
Code:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/meuk
turned out to have moved to /dev/sdc1:
Code:
fdisk -l
....
/dev/sdc1 ....... HPFS/NTFS
So, umount and remount as:
Code:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/meuk
After a short while, there was another popup telling me the device was not available. This time, /dev/sdc1 became /dev/sdb1 again.
On umounting/remounting, I got
Code:
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0); NTFS is inconsistent and so on.
For a moment I thought I'd better sync'd before umounting and remounting, but figured the device had vanished anyway, so would not sync either.
/var/log/messages and dmesg both show the device disappearing and reappearing; dmesg shows quite a few disc errors as well: the actual reason for me to copy the files.
I think I got two questions now:
- would the mount have survived had I used UUID's?
- am I screwed until I find a Windows PC where I have enough rights to perform a chkdsk?
Minor questions: what are the keywords I should have used to find a hint or answer without posting?
attachments: none; can't find a way to attach plain text files :-(
copy/paste of tails of var/log/messages and dmesg also does not seem to work (forum error: your message contains too few characters?)
