Re: backup drive has died.

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 09/01/2014 07:39 AM, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 01/09/14 06:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it
> > did give this error message when I tried to access it -
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line
> > `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1"
> > "/media/boudiccas/back1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount:
> > wrong fs
> > type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper
> > program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -
> > try
> > dmesg | tail or so
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > Is there any way in which I can access the contents of the drive please?
> >
> > If not, is it safe to format it and re-use it please? If so, what should
> > I format it as ? ext3? ext4? Or something else?
/snip/

Drives are cheap nowadays. Assuming you can get the data off the drive,
I can't see any good reason to trust it with your data again, even if you
can reformat it and partition it. were it me, I wouldn't!
--doug