external drive stopped auto detecting

[Michael]

is there a way to fix this with linux (I just read the error and it seems
to assume it is a hard drive in their fix)

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> okay.... I have mint17.3 on the computer that it doesn't like to boot
> from. I have mint 18  on my laptop and I just plugged the external and got
> aninfo window that says:
>
> Unable to mount TravelStuff
> Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/michael/TravelStuff: Command-line
> `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000"
> "/dev/sdb1" "/media/michael/TravelStuff"' exited with non-zero exit status
> 13: Incomplete multi-sector transfer: magic: 0x454c4946  size: 1024
>  usa_ofs: 48  usa_count: 0  data: 18  usn: 17: Input/output error
> Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x44414142)
> Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
> Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
> NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
> SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
> then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
> important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
> it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
> /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
> for more details.
>
> what can I do?
> (fyi.... the external unmounted itself as  I was copying files to it)
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> something is temperamental.  I replugged it in multiple times and it
>> finally detected it. I do not know if it is the cord, plug, or device
>> though.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What in the world? It was autodetecting the last time I plugged it in.
>>> Could someone help?
>>>
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>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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