How can I access this without formatting it.
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Also, if you’re dual booting, Disable Fast Start in Windows! That’ll prevent drives from being mounted on Linux since Windows never technically “shutsdown” when Fast Boot is enabled.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash exec > /tmp/sda-debug.log 2>&1 # The last "word" of this line is 4 chars - two, greater than, ampersand and one # strict mode set -euxo pipefail IFS=$'\n\t' TARGET="/tmp/myprecious" umount /dev/sda4 || true mkdir -p "$TARGET" mount /dev/sda4 "$TARGET" ls -la "$TARGET" # attempt read touch "$TARGET"/testfile # attempt write rm "$TARGET"/testfile umount "$TARGET" rmdir "$TARGET"
- Save this to a file somewhere, let’s call it
sda-debug.sh
- Make the script executable:
chmod +x sda-debug.sh
- Run it as root:
sudo ./sda-debug.sh
- Paste the content of
/tmp/sda-debug.log
here
EDIT: changed the script to log everything to a file for easier copy-past-ability.
This script will unmount the problematic drive and try to mount it to another place
/tmp/myprecious
, a temporary place. Then, as it says, will attempt to read and then write to the drive. Finally, it removes the file it wrote to test writeability, unmounts the drive again and removes the temporary mount place. The scripts needs root access to mount and unmount and possibly to write and read.Please don’t run a script you found on the internet with root access without knowing what it does.
This is some very good advice, OP!
- Save this to a file somewhere, let’s call it