My system is Linux 64bit, my hard-disk is a 1TB WD HD, connected to my computer by USB3.0. I found some files cannot be copied, they are video files, and it seems I can play the video. I ran e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb1 and no errors found. Then I read  article and tried the smartctl tool. But, I think it is because the HD is connected through USB, that the smartctl tools says the selftest function is not supported.  I used both drag-drop and rsync to try to copy the file, and both attempt results read error. I did not see more specific error message, or I do not know where to look at. :(  Now, I have no idea how to fix this disk error without format my disk, which I do not want.
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I have a very old 2.5" IDE drive inside a USB enclosure that gives some buffer I/O error. I tried to use smartctl to see what SMART says about it, but I can't manage to make it work. Being root, if I just write:  #&gt; smartctl --all /dev/sde   smartctl answers:  /dev/sde: Unknown USB bridge [0x14cd:0x6600 (0x201)] Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.   So I've tried every -d TYPE available in the help summary, and the best result is achieved with:  #&gt; smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde   that outputs:  Vendor:               IC25N030 Product:              ATMR04-0 User Capacity:        30,005,821,440 bytes [30,0 GB] Logical block size:   512 bytes scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0 &gt;&gt; Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.   If I also add -T permissive the last line is replaced with:  Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging   It seems that just a few models of USB enclosures are  by smartmontools. Is there something that I'm missing or simply the device implements an archaic version of SMART without any counters (and hence almost useless)?
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I've started using TrueCrypt to encrypt a partition on an external USB hard drive. I've opted for using a raw partition as opposed to a file container.  But here's the annoyance. Whenever I connect this drive to a computer running Vista or Windows 7, I get the message popup "You need to format the disk in drive J: before you can use it".   The default option is "Format disk", and I'm afraid one of these days I'll accidentally trigger it.  Is there any way to disable this message?
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I need to be able to copy about 2TB of data from an external drive (single USB external disk) to a another external drive (Drobo attached via Firewire).  Finder is not an option. If it hits any problem, it stops the process and I have to figure it out why it failed and start over. It could take me months to get through it.  I've read about CP and RSYNC but I'm not too familiar and I'm afraid I might get some of the switches wrong and miss files, or screw up the file dates, or worst...  Can anyone suggest how I might pull this off with minimum risk and cost?
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I want to know how to make a drive ( non-system ) from EXT4 to NTFS. Can anyone help me out?
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I was trying to put the  onto a thumb drive, when I was asked if I was OK with wiping it (I said yes I as it was blank).  I had to sleep my computer during the wiping, and now I can't do anything with my dive.  When I put it into my computer:    When I click format disk:    In short, the disk never reformats (I get an error message letting me know that Windows was unable to format the drive).  Whats going on, and how do I fix it?
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My wife's Windows 7 (64-bit) box has suddenly developed a SMART "disk is bad" status.  I'm attempting to copy everything off (no admonishments about lacking a backup regimen, please, I know already  :(  ) by creating a System Image across the network to a different machine, but it gets to a certain point and starts taking forever.  Doing a chkdsk reveals that certain files cause this by having many bad blocks (like dozens of thousands in a row, if the event log is any indication) and causing the system to do its standard try-to-recover-and-relocate-upon-access thing.  But this is taking so long, I'm afraid the disk will fail completely before I can get the damned thing copied.  However, several of the files so far have been ones that she has copies of elsewhere, so I am able to just delete them prior to retrying the backup to speed things up considerably.  So:  is there some tool or procedure that will try reading each file, and upon hitting a bad block, just tell me about it and skip to the next file?  So I can see which ones I can just dump and which I need to let it try to recover?
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(I am running Windows 7.)  Yesterday I did some clean-up and moved some mp4 files from my desktop to "My Videos".  Later I got a message that my OneDrive was almost full.  Then I realized that when I had put the videos into "My Videos", they magically got put into OneDrive as well.  Deleting them from OneDrive deleted them from "My Videos" as well.  Restoring them in the Recycle Bin put them back into both places.  Right-clicking OneDrive, it appeared that this shouldn't have happened, since   under Settings, "Let me use OneDrive to fetch any of my files on this PC" was not checked; under Auto Save, "Automatically save photos and videos to OneDrive whenever I connect a camera, phone, or other devices to my PC" was not checked either.   (My answer appears below -- if someone has an alternative answer I'm all ears.)
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I apologize if this question has been answered previously.  I've checked through the "similar titles" but haven't exactly had any luck.  I'm aware of the problem and I know the solution, I simply don't know how to implement the solution properly.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  What I'm experiencing is a SMART failure 05 and I'm being warned that a disk failure is imminent.  My old partitions is what is causing the problem and the solution is to skip over the bad sectors via a new partition.  I have a 100gb hard drive, and I think it's safe to say that the first 20gb are borked in this regard.  How do I set up a partition outside of these first 20gb?  Would I designate this as "free space"?  Or something else?  Please be detailed (e.g. screen shots), I'm fairly computer literate but I'm a beginner when it comes to Ubuntu 12.04.  Thank you for your help!
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I received a new HDD from my uncle, RAW file system. Tried CHKDSK, but it didn't work because of the RAW file system.      Update  I ran SpinRite 6 overnight and it got nowhere. Stayed at 0% for the whole 10 hours. SpinRite also gave me a notification that this drive is most probably toast. I think I am going to throw this drive away.
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Whenever I try and copy a file to an USB flash disk, the progress bar runs till the end very fast and stops for an indeterminable time before it is complete.  Is there an issue with ubuntu or my flash disk is what I am not able to figure out. All I want is a realistic copy dialogue
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Given HDD 1TB with a two partitions: one is small ~24GB (for Ubuntu) and all the rest is the second partition with about 10% occupied space for multimedia files.  I want to duplicate it as fast as possible. I boot from USB stick. The second disk is /dev/sdb.  sfdisk -d /dev/sda &gt; a sfdisk /dev/sdb &lt; a   Then I copy bytewise the small partition:  dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M status=progress   It takes about two minutes. Then I want to copy in optimal manner contents of the second partition. Just filesystem w/ file attributes:  rsync -avHAX /media/ubuntu/sda2dir /media/ubuntu/sdb2dir   After that I tried to boot from second HDD and can't.  How to copy MBR and other crucial information?  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb takes about 1h20m for 1TB HDD. It is not acceptable. And seems also not works.
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I need to make backups of some files on a network share. However, I need to copy those files to my local drive before burning the disks because those files might be in use. Some of the files won't copy because the file path is too long. Is there any workaround other than changing the file structure?
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I'm trying to mount my HDD,  /dev/sdb, which is connected via an enclosure but every time I try do so I get an error message   mount: /dev/sdb: can't read superblock   How do I solve this problem and mount my HDD?
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I'm trying to copy a file to a USB flash drive. The drive does not have a write-protect switch.  df gives the following:  $ df -h . Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sde1       1.9G  622M  1.3G  33% /media/lindenb/803C-078D   df -i produces strange output to me (0 everywhere)  $ df -i . Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sde1           0     0     0     - /media/lindenb/803C-078D   Number of files on the drive:  $ find . |wc -l 170   But when I try to copy a file, I get this:  $ mv ~/file.txt ./ mv: cannot create regular file ‘./file.txt’: No space left on device   How can I fix this ?
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I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 &amp; WinXP).  Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've found , but it only reads ext4.     9. ext4 extent read-only, no  size truncating and expanding support   More:     Supported Ext3/4 features:         flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size   dir_index:    htree directory index   filetype:     extra file mode in dentry   large_file:   > 4G files supported   sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor   uninit_bg:    fast fsck and group checksum   extent:       reading, writing with no extending.   journal:      only support replay for internal journal         Unsupported Ext3/4 features:         journal: log-based operations, external journal   extent: size truncating &amp; expanding, file deletion   flex_bg: first metadata group   EA (extended attributes), ACL support      Also, I have found a patch for Ext4Fsd v0.50 ():     New: Matt Wu has made a new release 0.50 at   ext2fsd.com.  Support for ext4 extents and fix   for BSOD on Windows 7.   I don't think it will be safe. Also I've read some words about writing ext4 in Windows could cause data loss on the disk...  What is the External HDD used for? - First, it will store backups, then family movies, pictures. Some music, and etc. It will be connected to a Raspberry Pi, if I finally receive it. It won't really move, just when it is used to migrate computer's data to a new one. The largest files it will store are Clonezilla disk images (I don't know, if they will be large files or not).  Can someone provide a solution for this problem? Or is there NO important enough difference between ext4 and ext3, and I should use ext3? - (If yes, then can I use Ext2Fsd for that ext3 mount?)  Thank you!
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My  is not recognized by windows. When I connect it to the computer I do not see "Mass Storage Device" Under "Universal Serial Bus Controller". I already check the troubleshoot and test for everything (Cable is OK, I checked in another computer, etc)  It happen after I connect the Hard Drive to another computer which then I realized it's USB Port was corrupted and problematic.  Is there a way I can fix this Hard Drive? Or any utility which can access this hard disk? When I connect Hard Disk, it turned On (The Light become green) and it start vibrating.  P.S: I check my drive again SeaTools, but  cannot recognize it too.
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I'd like to copy files from one external drive to a network connected drive. I want to make sure that there are no errors.  I know of MD5 hash files that I see for large single files that are download from the internet. I also know that I can use the terminal to 'diff' the two sets of files.  However, I'm looking for a piece of software that could confirm that all the files in the file structure have been copied by the finder completely, or a piece of software that would do the copying for me and confirm that all the bits are exactly the same.  The files are video related - and are often over a TB in size (not in one file - complex multi-folder nested files)  I'm fine if there is a terminal command that can do the copy and compare for me as well. (although being able to see the amount of time left on a copy is a very nice feature... additionally, I want to make sure I get ALL of the file - resource forks and all)