Cfrgtkky

I recently bought a computer for my Wife, windows (her choice not mine). Before we paid, I asked the salesman to check whether my hard drive would work with windows 7 (as sometimes windows can be iffy). It worked fine, however, the salesman yanked my hard drive out without removing it safely. Now it wont mount, in my Ubuntu computer or her new windows. I've tried a lot of instructions but none work.

This is what I'm up against:

sammy@Fart:~$ sudo fdisk -l



Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00077cf7



   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda2          206848    20482047    10137600    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda3        20482048   177605687    78561820    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda4       177606654   976771071   399582209    5  Extended

/dev/sda5       177606656   971016191   396704768   83  Linux

/dev/sda6       971018240   976771071     2876416   82  Linux swap / Solaris



Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773167 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xe640222c



   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1              63   976768064   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

So, would I be right in presuming that my hard drive is /dev/sdb1 ?

I tried to mount it manually and got this error message:

sammy@Fart:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media

Error reading bootsector: Input/output error

Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': 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.

/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation

for more details.

I tried to run chkdsk /f on windows but it would not run due to my disk already being used by another process. Now I'm stuck. I'm not new to ubuntu but I'm not a computer whizz either. I don't really know anything about softraid/fakeraid and have no idea what to do.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

P.S.
(To answer the first question you may have on your mind, yes I regret calling my computer "fart")

Thanks alot,

Sammy

Update: I've now successfully completed check disk and it hasn't solved a thing. Nothing suggested has worked and I've run out of ideas.

Already answered:
Fix corrupt NTFS partition without Windows

Please try and see if it matches your case, using Gparted is a highly recommended solution, saved a lot of hassle for me (although all the other options suggested there are quite good as well).

From own experience: 'ungraceful' detachment of a removable device resulted in inconsistent reference to the volume's first sector in the mbr partition table.

Using a Disk editor (e.g. wxHexEditor), locate the ntfs boot sector.
Make sure this lies on sector 63 (64th sector).

Tas