im trying to format my 40gb hard drive and i get error ATA HTC426040G8CE00 saying one ore more partitions are busy on /DEV/SDA
View 2 RepliesI have new external usb drive which I'm trying to format to NTFS so I can also use in in windows. I've set it up using fdisk
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x604a2a7d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS
And tried formatting using
mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sdd1
However I get the following error
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 100% - Done.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
Error writing to /dev/sdd1: Input/output error.
Error writing non-resident attribute value.
add_attr_sd failed: Input/output error
Couldn't create root directory: Input/output error
I'm trying to format my main HDD and when I go to click format it says unable to format it says "Unable to format, device busy" I click details and it says "One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sda" I tried rebooting several times and no luck.
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View 6 Replies View Relatedcan't find an answer for this here or elsewhere. I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop with no problems...until now. I bought a Seagate portable drive for backup/extra storage purposes. When I plug in the drive and start up Disk Utility, it recognizes the Drive and whatnot, but when I click "Format Drive" I end up (after clicking through the warnings) with an error message stating:Error Formatting DriveAn error occurred while performing an operation on "640 GB Hard Disk" (Seagate Portable):The device is busyI clicked for details, which resulted in:One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb(Not that detailed, if you ask me.)I then entered the command line (a scary place for someone who came over from OSX) Code:sudo lshw -C diskgave me this info about the hard drive I'm trying to format:
Code:
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
[code]...
How do I find out "why" the mounted virtual drive is busy? All windowed programs are closed out. I assume a background program is using the resource? All was fine until about a week ago.
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The weirdest part is that rebooting often changes which drive is marked as busy, it can be any of the 4 SATA drives. how to figure out why/what is being used and how to disable it? I have tried searching for similar threads here and in google and haven't found anything similar or that worked.
I have 4 SATA's in a RAID 5 array using mdadm. Yesterday when I started the computer the RAID did not build/mount.
When trying to load the array manually I get the message "mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sd(a,b,c,d)1: Device or resource busy" The drives should not be mounted or in use.
The output of the affected drive in mdadm (mdadm --examine /dev/sd_1) looks normal.
The weirdest part is that rebooting often changes which drive is marked as busy, it can be any of the 4 SATA drives. What is being used and how to disable it?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedLately my second HDD won't mount anymore. It always states that it is Busy. And wel I need the data on it so formatting isn't an option.
Code:
root@usr-desktop:/home/usr# sudo mount /dev/sda /media/Algemeen -o force
mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /media/Algemeen busy
SOLVED: Thread can be marked solved, Motherboard failure / Cable Replacement.
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/dev/sda1 is XP; /dev/sda2 is Linux Mint
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