I have had windows laptop in my own house, and I've used puppy slacko occasionally. I've had internal HDD and external, and both of them have worked on windows. But, from the beginning, external HDD worked only in the read mode on puppy. Here is what I am getting like an answer while trying to mount it on slacko:
I know that external have some bad sector or something like that, because when I wanted to fix it while using windows, I always got the error at the end. But no matter that, I could use it to write and read the files on it.The ntfs-3g driver was unable to mount the NTFS
partition and returned this error message:
Failed to read last sector (2930275119): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
So, the inbuilt kernel NTFS driver has been used
to mount the partition read-only.
External HDD is Western Digital Elements desktop 1,5 TB:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260
Now when the internal HDD is broken, I do not have any interest in reparing the laptop, and using it only with puppy slacko. But on slacko, I can't write anything on it, just reading the files are possible.
Could you help me ( because in the few months I won't be able to buy any new computer ), to try some solution now, when only slacko is working on such computer?
I have many many files on the external HDD, and don't have the option for saving files anywhere else, if you mean that I would need to format the whole external.
Is there any other possibility on slacko, just not to format with all those files?
Thanks in advance, Kicalaf