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Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/larry/Storage Drive: Command-line `mount -t 'ntfs' -o 'uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000' '/dev/sdb2' '/media/larry/Storage Drive' exited with non-zero exit status 13: Error reading bootsector: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details. As well as the same thing for sdb3 as well. I ran a chkdsk /f on it in Windows on another computer (which BTW sees the files fine), but when connecting the drive back to my Linux system, I get the same two error pop-ups again.

I also tried a ntfsfix but if I tried it on the sdb2 or sdb3, it gave me an error reading bootsector. Are there any other ways to access the files on this drive? Not sure if this is helpful at all but fdisk shows a disk /dev/sdb that's 931.5GB (which is about right since the drive in question is 1TB). It then has a sdb1 - sdb4 under that. As an update, I tried taking the drive to another computer with Windows and it said it needed to be formatted. WD SmartWare also said there were no SmartWare drives found. Even doing a Windows format still renders the drive unmountable when it returns to Linux with the same error message.

The unusual thing is that it tries to mount two volumes: sdb2 (871 GB) and sdb3 (372 GB) out of the one 1TB drive. There are no partitions on the drive.

I mean, it's now freshly formatted, so there's nothing on the drive. I am afraid I have few suggestions in that case. The assumption was that the drive worked normally in Windows.

When you plug it in in Windows you do not see a Virtual CD drive appear in the explorer? If we were talking about this specific WD issue, you should. It would contain the 'unlock' executable, which indeed you could need to run before a Windows system recognizes it as well. How to cast from chrome for mac. The VCD is, as far as I'm aware, fully firmware-based; does not exist on the physical drive. That would also mean that 871 GB or GiB is too small for your 1TB=931GiB drive. Certainly 871+372 GB or GiB is too large. Could not, that is, tell you what is going on.

Rene wrote:I am afraid I have few suggestions in that case. The assumption was that the drive worked normally in Windows. When you plug it in in Windows you do not see a Virtual CD drive appear in the explorer?

If we were talking about this specific WD issue, you should. It would contain the 'unlock' executable, which indeed you could need to run before a Windows system recognizes it as well. The VCD is, as far as I'm aware, fully firmware-based; does not exist on the physical drive.

That would also mean that 871 GB or GiB is too small for your 1TB=931GiB drive. Certainly 871+372 GB or GiB is too large. Could not, that is, tell you what is going on. Lmack82 wrote:There are no partitions on the drive.