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turvo

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Registered: 2015-11-27

Posts: 1

Suddenly partition cannot be mounted

Hey guys, i'm totally new to this kind of things and I encountered a problem. My hard drive died and my friend told me to use Slitaz 4.0 to copy my files before repairing it. So i did, started copying and wanted to continue next day. And now, one partition is not mounted and cannot be even though it was easily accessible yesterday.

That's what GParted says about it (added pic) : http://postimg.org/image/xkcmateub/

And when I click it in File Manger it says: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked.

Have no idea what to do to gain access to my files, as I said, I am completely new to this and am following only tutorials so now I cannot improvise. Any ideas?

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Suddenly partition cannot be mounted

In a terminal, type this and try to find messages about disk errors:

[c]dmesg|less[/c]

I advise that you search backwards: once you typed the command, hit Shift+G to go to the end of the messages, then scroll up with the up-arrow (line by line) or B (page by page).

What room do you have on your backup device? If it can hold 220 GB, do these commands after mounting it (the backup device):

[c]su
(type root password, it's "root" on the Live version)
dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/path/to/backup/partition_image.iso bs=1M[/c]
If this fails, your disk is *really* dying. Then you'll want to try ddrescue.

If your backup device is not big enough, maybe you can try what gparted advises (ntfsclone), but I don't know if it can make an image with only useful blocks (resulting in an image smaller than the original device).