Total newb here. Bear with me.
Trying to go from XP to Ubuntu. It is going on a single hard drive and it installs fine. I also have a 5 disk raid 5 array with a lot of stuff I don't want to lose. It is backed up however so into it I went.
Tried to go Ubuntu only. Cleaned off windows (in Ubuntu installer made everything into clean space then created the root and swap partitions). Ubunto installed fine. I tried to use ntfs-3g to mount my 5 disk raid 5 array. Could not mount the raid array because of an error like the following:
Code:
$MFT has invalid magic.
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
made to NTFS by this software.
I decided I would try and dual boot. This is a whole other story but after two days I got it dual booting. So now I go in, run chkdsk /f on the drive in windows. I reboot twice. I shutdown, boot into ubuntu and try the process again (both automatic and manual at the first page of this thread) and I get the same error.
Code:
$MFT has invalid magic.
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
made to NTFS by this software.
I can see it when I grep for NTFS:
Code:
jeff@enghlol:~$ sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS
/dev/sdb1 1 155653 1250282691 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table
/dev/sdf1 * 1 5100 40960048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I try to umount, I get the following:
Code:
jeff@enghlol:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted
When I try to mount it, I get the following:
Code:
jeff@enghlol:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1
$MFT has invalid magic.
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
made to NTFS by this software.
What am I doing wrong? Is this supported with RAID 5 at all? Why when I grep for NTFS do I only see 4 of the 5 drives in this array? The fifth above is the same drive that Ubuntu is on, it is not in this array. There are 5 in it, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, /dev/sde and some other missing one.
Any help would be helpful here. I've already lost 50 Gigs of flac music that will take me weeks to re rip. I don't want to have to restore 7 years worth of family pictures from my backups. But I desperately want to use Ubuntu after my trial run this week. I share a lot of stuff off of this raid array to my xbox and home audio system. I also use it as a development drive for my java development job.
THANKS!
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