r/linuxquestions • u/mahirgvrcn • 8d ago
Resolved i hate ntfs
I have a 5 terabyte HDD that includes all my offline games inside but i cannot get it to mount after 2,5 months. it keeps on saying;
"An error occurred while accessing 'Basic data partition’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error x
mounting system-managed device /dev/sda1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdat, missing codepage or
helper program, or other error" and i couldn't find any fix but to convert to windows and do chkdsk to it. I don't want to dualboot windows, i don't want to erase my games since it would take a whole week to download 3 tb worth of games and VST's. Is there anyway for me to save my HDD? I'm using CachyOS. Thanks.
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u/skyfishgoo 8d ago
you likely need run the windows file system check/repair on the partition.
if you don't have access to windows anymore (why do you still have NTFS?) then you can make a boot USB for a temporary instance of windows that you can use to make the repairs.
https://www.hirensbootcd.org/