You may need to use dd to copy the entire drive to a file at a destination with sufficient free space, then try to recover files from that image. From: luv-main <luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au> on behalf of stripes theotoky via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> Reply-To: stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com> Date: Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 12:39 To: <mlug-au@googlegroups.com>, LUV mailing list <luv-main@luv.asn.au> Subject: USB drive errors I have a WD passport USB drive that has been working fine. Just plugged it in and get input / output errors and it won't mount. Mounted it manually with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt it mounts fine and ls shows this. ls: cannot access 'Locale': Input/output error total 4845912 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Apr 23 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 18 19:03 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 25 2018 apache2-Debian drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Dec 15 2012 Extras d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Locale drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 3 2011 'System Volume Information' drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 4 2013 .Trash-1000 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 294697 Jun 23 2009 'User Manuals' -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2013 May 9 2009 'WD Apps for Windows' drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Aug 11 2014 Windows I have no idea what Locale is and there seems to be no way to do anything with it. Any suggesting apart from using rsync to copy everything else off the drive and formatting it? Stripes. -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main