17 Oct
2019
17 Oct
'19
10:38 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:21 +1300, john wrote:
My neighbor just gave me a couple of failed Sea-gate hard drives to test I put them (one at a time) into my Linux mint machine. They showed up in my computer but would not mount.
Maybe the filesystems have inconsistencies in them? The fsck utility should be able to repair these. It may report some horrible-sounding warnings, but then, there isn’t a better choice than to proceed.