I don’t know if this is the right section to post but here’s my problem.While I was renaming a folder (on Windows >.<) my external HDD failed.Suddenly it wouldn’t let me acces anything.The name of the partition changed in “Local Disk”.Did some google search, found a soft that could recover my data.(torrents). Of course it had spyware/virus in it.So when I opened it…2-3 “antispyware” installation popped up out of nowhere.Now because of them I’m unable to connect to the internet on win.(That’s not the problem , I can reinstall it anytime, but I just wanted to show a disavantage of being a user of Microsoft’s Windows).
The problem persists within Linux. "Unable to mount the volume ‘Quad Damage’."Is there any way to recover my files and…if possible to “repair” my hard-drive?
It probably just needs connecting to a windows machine and then safely remove. It’s probably become what is known as Dirty.
Then try it again in Linux.
You could clean up virus’ on windows from Linux with clamav
@swerdna: Do you think that using ntfsfix might be sufficient to reset the dirty bit? (Assuming thats the issue, and that there are no serious journal issues of course).