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Originally Posted by Hiroki
I keep forgetting the simplist things. It's currently formatted to fat32
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Well, i`m sure you`ve probably figured it out for yourself by now but i think the absolute best way to deal with any Fat/ntfs type file systems would be to use Windows/Scandisk(?) but you can certainly try something like
dosfsck in Ubuntu
So, for example..
With your external drive plugged in run...
That will tell you the location of your external drive/partitions...
Make sure the drive/partition you want to check is unmounted then run something like...
Code:
sudo dosfsck -a -w -v /dev/sdb1
Replacing "/dev/sdb1" with the location of your own drive.
There may well be better ways but i generally dont have much need for repairing Windows filesystems in Linux and even if/when i do i can easily do it in one of the Windows installations/vm`s we do have around.
EDIT: You can actually just use "fsck" on it`s own, without the "dos" part of the command.
ie...
Code:
sudo fsck -a -w -v /dev/sdb1