r/debian • u/maria08042009 • 4d ago

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I can't open one of disks on my PC, I don't know what to do. I'm not sure what could have done this. Last time I turned on PC everything was fine. Do you think the fact that PC went without electricity for nearly 24 hours? I wasn't able tot turn it off properly because of my UPS no longer working properly.

Update: I managed to copy all my data to a different disk. Problem was caused by one .odt file that was saved incorrectly due emergency incorrect shutdown of PC (thanks to my broken UPS).

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u/maria08042009 4d ago

I don't know... I am a really casual user, so I have no idea

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u/CardOk755 4d ago

Mods removed your dmesg, don't know why, but:

Aha, you have a Microsoft NTFS filesystem on /dev/sda2 and it was uncleanly unmounted.

Historically Linux has been really bad at fixing problems on NTFS filesystems. I'd recommend trying to mount that disk on a windows system.

(I might be out of date, I haven't messed with NTFS in years).

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u/maria08042009 4d ago

Is it possible to copy files from this disk beforehand?

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u/CardOk755 4d ago

From that partition? You could look into the ntfsprogs package, that might let you list and copy files from the partition.

I have no idea whether it's safe. I'm nowhere near an expert on NTFS.

Personally, I'd use Windows to fix it then copy all the important files off to a Linux partition.

What important data dies it contain?