Re: can't mount USB disk

On 1/13/22 7:23 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On 1/12/22 10:56 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> On 1/12/22 1:34 PM, Dale Scott wrote:
...
>> I would like to clean up some stuff on that drive but given your
>> note I guess I guess I will do that from a linux system. When
>> plugged into a win7 system the device doesn't show up as a
>> labelled (i.e. bigletter:\) drive, so I can't easily delete things
>> on the win7 system; not sure why that is.  windows-backup seems to
>> identify it ok and chooses it for backup.
> 
> This doesn't sound right, it should be something else.

I agree, which is why I wanted to look at it on my fbsd system.

> If drive is partitioned and formatted (NTFS) under MS Windows [7,
> 10], it stays the same after you use it for Windows backup, any of
> them:
> 
> 1. Windows image backup just creates big "system image" file with
> default name, changed nothing else 2. Windows 7 style backup asks
> which folder to use, and puts backups there, touched nothing else 3.
> Windows 10 "file history" similarly uses folder of your choice,
> leaving the rest of drive as it is.
> 
> Something is wrong with the drive and I doubt any of the above
> Windows tools are to blame.
> 
> I would mount drive read-only, copy everything elsewhere, reformat
> drive on Windows machine, copy everything back, and see if drive
> behaves after that.
> 
> I hope, it helps.

Thanks; I was hoping to copy them and then make a tarball, but it appears
they are a bunch of zip files and directories of zip files, so it will be
more of a job.  (It's a win7 backup).  Anyway, I need to find more disk
to do that.

Gary