Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:03:51 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount USB disk Message-ID: <89fd4f04-97b2-2c30-62be-0f9badb5c6d2@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <0562bef6-ef53-0789-db37-4619f39dff2e@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <f9ee146d-941c-01cd-9f96-ff9d881f7843@dreamchaser.org> <1511373289.461121272.1642019647543.JavaMail.zimbra@shaw.ca> <dc70fde2-7f17-6c82-66bb-a1847b9ee0f4@dreamchaser.org> <0562bef6-ef53-0789-db37-4619f39dff2e@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On 1/13/22 7:23 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On 1/12/22 10:56 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >> On 1/12/22 1:34 PM, Dale Scott wrote: ... >> I would like to clean up some stuff on that drive but given your >> note I guess I guess I will do that from a linux system. When >> plugged into a win7 system the device doesn't show up as a >> labelled (i.e. bigletter:\) drive, so I can't easily delete things >> on the win7 system; not sure why that is. windows-backup seems to >> identify it ok and chooses it for backup. > > This doesn't sound right, it should be something else. I agree, which is why I wanted to look at it on my fbsd system. > If drive is partitioned and formatted (NTFS) under MS Windows [7, > 10], it stays the same after you use it for Windows backup, any of > them: > > 1. Windows image backup just creates big "system image" file with > default name, changed nothing else 2. Windows 7 style backup asks > which folder to use, and puts backups there, touched nothing else 3. > Windows 10 "file history" similarly uses folder of your choice, > leaving the rest of drive as it is. > > Something is wrong with the drive and I doubt any of the above > Windows tools are to blame. > > I would mount drive read-only, copy everything elsewhere, reformat > drive on Windows machine, copy everything back, and see if drive > behaves after that. > > I hope, it helps. Thanks; I was hoping to copy them and then make a tarball, but it appears they are a bunch of zip files and directories of zip files, so it will be more of a job. (It's a win7 backup). Anyway, I need to find more disk to do that. Gary
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