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 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 wrote: > >> What in the world? It was autodetecting the last time I plugged it in. >> Could someone help? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: