I have 2x 3TB hard drives that were previously in a Buffalo NAS and formatted in NTFS. I want to get rid of the NAS and move the drives into an Ubuntu machine, but I'm having trouble mounting.
Steps I've taken so far:
1- Ran fdisk -l, and the output below is for the 2 drives in question. Given file size, I'm wanting to mount sdb6 and sdc6.
Disk /dev/sdb: 2.75 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectorsDisk model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: 88E57593-A093-4314-8F76-7973CD42794EDevice Start End Sectors Size Type/dev/sdb1 34 2000000 1999967 976.6M Microsoft basic data/dev/sdb2 2000896 11999231 9998336 4.8G Microsoft basic data/dev/sdb3 11999232 12000000 769 384.5K BIOS boot/dev/sdb4 12000001 12000001 1 512B Microsoft basic data/dev/sdb5 12000002 14000000 1999999 976.6M Microsoft basic data/dev/sdb6 14000128 5843750911 5829750784 2.7T Microsoft basic dataPartition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.Disk /dev/sdc: 2.75 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectorsDisk model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: AACC386C-088B-4795-8212-52BB14A43F6CDevice Start End Sectors Size Type/dev/sdc1 34 2000000 1999967 976.6M Microsoft basic data/dev/sdc2 2000896 11999231 9998336 4.8G Microsoft basic data/dev/sdc3 11999232 12000000 769 384.5K BIOS boot/dev/sdc4 12000001 12000001 1 512B Microsoft basic data/dev/sdc5 12000002 14000000 1999999 976.6M Microsoft basic data/dev/sdc6 14000128 5843750911 5829750784 2.7T Microsoft basic dataPartition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.2- Created 2 directories, called /media/drive1 and /media/drive2
3- Tried a variety of mounting techniques along the lines of below, all giving the same output:
sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdb6 /media/drive1NTFS signature is missing.Failed to mount '/dev/sdb6': Invalid argumentThe device '/dev/sdb6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of apartition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?4- I've searched a few queries and so tried
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb6Which gave the output:
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.FAILEDAttempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.FAILEDFailed to startup volume: Invalid argumentNTFS signature is missing.Trying the alternate boot sectorUnrecoverable errorVolume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.I don't believe there is an "error" on the drives, to the extent that they were working fine this morning in the NAS. Both drives are giving identical errors.
Any help is greatly appreciated - ideally I'd like to eventually have them automounted in fstab, but at this point just getting them to mount manually would help.
Thanks in advance!