Fedora Hardware :: External Hard Drive Unreadable - Cannot Show All Files
Aug 14, 2010When I inset my External Hard drive into my laptop it shows 27.3 gb occupied but doesn't show all the files. Also , this is happening only now.
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Code:
May 29 10:11:46 CQ60 kernel: [ 112.942602] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access
USBest USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
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Jan 14, 2009I have 2 ubuntu's: 1 on my ineternal hard drive, 1 on my external
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Reallocated sector count
threshold: 36
Normalized: 61
Worst: 61
value: 6488
Current pending sector count:
Normalized:1
threshold: 0
worst: 1
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
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