It is kind of funny, I just bought this disk because another one WD Passport was starting to fail/get flakey. The right thing to do is to get another disk.
This SSD was to be my carry around disk containing work I've done in the past as reference. My brains so to speak. Pity in windows it (the disk) has lost its mind. Linux/Ubuntu has no problems with the disk, so far. I guess a NAS is in my future. Thanks for your suggestions. Bruce > On Dec 4, 2014, at 16:21, John Abreau <j...@blu.org> wrote: > > Safest thing would be to get a spare disk, back up everything from the SSD to > the spare disk, then reformat the SSD so Win7 is happy, then restore > everything from the spare back to the SSD. > > It might make sense to replace it with a NAS drive so the two OSes aren't > accessing the drive at such a low level that corruption is likely to occur. > Connect to the NAS with an Ethernet cable and access it via NFS and Samba. > >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Have an SSD formatted to NTFS. I had intended to use it between linux and >> Win7 as a backup. It worked for a while in both OS. Yesterday Win7 asked >> if I wanted to repair the disk. Since there are directories and file names >> that are not windows safe, I declined. >> >> Later in the day, I reconnected the disk to my win7 machine, and the >> computer could not recognize the drive. >> >> Location is not available >> E:\ is not accessible >> The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable >> >> It asked if I wanted to format the disk. Umm, no. >> >> Later in the evening, I connected my SSD to my linux laptop. It opened the >> SSD and files within it without problem. >> >> I looked at the disk in gparted, and it showed a non-descriptive !, and >> something about not being able to read it, suggesting I install ntfsprogs >> and ntfs-3g. However, ntfs-3g is already on my laptop (and clearly running, >> along with fuse). The "!" is just that the disk is unmounted. >> gparted also showed a green box, and a key icon next to the SDD name >> /dev/sdc1. >> >> Is this fixable? Am I headed to uncertain doom? Seriously, is there a way >> to get back to having win7 recognize the disk again? Or should I get yet >> another disk, transfer the cross-platform compatible files and directories >> and start all over again? Should I use a different file format? >> >> Any suggestions? Thanks. >> >> Ubuntu 14.10. i7, 32GB Ram, 240GB SSD main drive, Crucial 1TB SSD in >> Inatech USB3 housing. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
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