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@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@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@gmail.com> wrote:

What in the world? It was autodetecting the last time I plugged it in. Could someone help?

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