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Thread: Western Digital External HDD Error


i'm pretty new ubuntu , have problem connecting 2tb western digital hard drive via usb laptop running ubuntu 11.10. keep getting error message:

error mounting: mount exited exit code 12: failed read last sector (3907027119): invalid argument
hints: either volume raid/ldm wasn't setup yet,
or not setup correctly (e.g. not using mdadm --build ...),
or wrong device tried mounted,
or partition table corrupt (partition smaller ntfs),
or ntfs boot sector corrupt (ntfs size not valid).
failed mount '/dev/sdb1': invalid argument
device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem have valid ntfs.
maybe wrong device used? or whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? or other way around?


hard drive contains media , works fine desktop running windows 7. other posts on here regarding wd hdd's recommend formatting drive - there fix allows me keep data?



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