Re: Hard drives

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:38:39 +1300

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:21 +1300, john wrote:

> My neighbor just gave me a couple of failed Sea-gate hard drives to
> test I put them (one at a time) into my Linux mint machine. They
> showed up in my computer but would not mount.

Maybe the filesystems have inconsistencies in them? The fsck utility
should be able to repair these. It may report some horrible-sounding
warnings, but then, there isn’t a better choice than to proceed.
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