External Hard Drive Won't Mount: $MFTMirr does not match (record 0).

[Steve00]

I am now unable to mount my external USB hard drive in Ubuntu 8.10. When I try I get a "$MFTMirr does not match (record 0)." error. I can access the drive from windows XP. I also did the double windows boot, running chkdsk /f which did not solve the problem.

I did search on the error and do not understand the suggested fixes.

Running sudo blkid

results in:

/dev/sda1: UUID="9644A86344A847B7" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="5c434659-3c42-45ba-853a-4b8a7ad802fe" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" UUID="b9e3da8b-a682-4314-82ee-4f658eda8ae0"
/dev/sda7: UUID="ce379d48-34bf-45ef-a603-61108a5ae20c" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="FA74C0B974C07A41" LABEL="FreeAgent Drive" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="Ubuntu 9.04 i386" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/loop1: UUID="d3440751-b8c1-4af9-8d9a-0e447ac8ac55" TYPE="ext3"

and my /etc/fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5c434659-3c42-45ba-853a-4b8a7ad802fe / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=ce379d48-34bf-45ef-a603-61108a5ae20c /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=b9e3da8b-a682-4314-82ee-4f658eda8ae0 none swap sw 0 0

Don't have a clue where to go from here.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

--Steve

[Steve00]

Kept digging and finally found:

http://blog.herrmann.pro.br/mftmirr_does_not_match_mft/

and it worked as advertised and I've got my external drive back up and running.