Linux Lite Forums - Hard Drives and SSDs

Accidentally Deleted folder from secondary drive - HELP!

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:14:57 +0800

Not sure if there is any help for this...

I have a dual-boot system. Two SSDs - one Linux Lite, one Linux Mint, and a third HDD for my files.

Like a dummy, I deleted the folder called PICTURES from my HDD. And it contains ALL of my pictures. I do have a backup but it is not totally recent, so with it I can retrieve about 98% of my lost files.

I do not see the missing files on the TRASH folder of Linux Lite.

Is there any way to recover them?

THANK YOU

Hard Disk problem

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:34:42 +0800

I believe I've messed the HD on my Dell Latitude E6220 laptop. I was using Bleachbit to free up some HD space, and the laptop crashed while the process was taking place. Now the laptop won't boot from the HD, may be because it is corrupted or full. And the HD root data is not being detected anymore, neither. I'm unable to wipe or reformat the whole HD. Can only boot with the USB drive.

Can anyone please help me? Or, is it time to dump the laptop?

Unable to Mount External Hard Drive on LL 7.0

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:06:10 +0800

Hello,
I am trying to mount an external hard drive using the LL 7.0 version, but all I get is an error message. Earlier versions of LL seemed to work well when mounting the same hard drive. The hard drive shows up in the file menu, but it won't open.
Regards,
dheo

USB drive partition not mounting @ connection

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:51:02 +0800

I have just installed LL 7.0. I have a USB drive, Seagate, that has 2 partitions on it. one is ext 4, the other NTFS.

When I plug the USB drive in, the ext 4 is recognized and is usable straight up. The NTFS partition is not.

The message for the error is
" wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing code page or helper program, or other error"

If I load disks and try and mount the partition there, I get the same error.

HOWEVER:
I am able to mount via the commend line. ???
If i use sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/ . It will load and be usable.

The ownership of the drive is all.

Any advise / help would be greatly appreciated.

I am not a Linux expert, so please do keep it simple if you are able to help.

H.

Mounting NTFS with read-write permissions

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:20:47 +0800

Hello Admin,
I have installed LL6.6 on a brand new system with Intel i5 3rd gen, 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD.
I have added an already partitioned NTFS disk and I tried to mount with Disks GUI app with the following parameters: rw nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,uid=username,gid=username
However, even it shows in Thunbar that permissions are read-write for the username and username group, yet I can access it read-only.
Failed any trial of saving a text file in that partition, even the ls -l command shows that I have all rights.
Any idea of fixing it?

HDD

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:32:55 +0800

I recently installed Linux Lite on my Chromebook 3100 which has 16 GB storage, and since ChromeOS is a bigger OS it took up a lot of my Hard Drive. On Linux it knows that I have 16GB but it can't access it for whatever reason. I tried removing hardware write protection it's not protected with a screw. Any suggestions?

Linux Lite destroyed my SSD

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:13:47 +0800

Linux Lite destroyed my SSD please fix it

My external device SSD not able to mount for my data files

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:59:35 +0800

Dear Sir/Madam,

I was using my previous SSD Hard drive as an external hard drive and was working fine but today unfortunately unable to mount my data files. For further convenience, I am enclosing herewith a screenshot message as I am seeing. "Mount Failed

Failed to mount "127 GB Volume"
Error mounting /dev/sdb5 at /media/linuxlite/ 044f817b-c90b-4713-9339-654368a3f452: wrong fs
type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

x Close

I shall be very thankful to someone else who can resolve my external SSD device's failure to mount.

Thanks with anticipation,
Muhammad Umar Farooq

Splitting EXT4 Partition Into New NTFS Drive

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 06:21:50 +0800

Hello, I'm having trouble trying to split the EXT4 partition to have a 2nd NTFS partition to install Windows on it. I thought this would be easy but it won't let me do it. Any suggestions please? thank you

USB DVDRW drive: "...Failed Mount. Operation permitted for root only"

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:53:12 +0800

New dvdrw drive (external usb). I can play a commercial DVD with no problem. An icon appears on the desktop (us-Initio_DVD-RAM_UJ-841S_0000000000000000W). Brasero says it cannot find a burner. When I try to mount it (right-click on icon), it gives me a "Failed Mount - operation permitted for root only". What do you think?

Convert existing LL parition to RAID1

Tue, 16 May 2023 05:02:19 +0800

I am hoping to setup RAID1 using 2 disks. This is a UEFI computer if that matters.

The exisiting drive "/dev/sda" is partitioned like this:

Code:
Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type

/dev/sda1  *       2048   1050623   1048576   512M  b W95 FAT32

/dev/sda2       1052670 976771071 975718402 465.3G  5 Extended

/dev/sda5       1052672 976771071 975718400 465.3G 83 Linux

Should the mirroring be done with "/dev/sda2" or "/dev/sda5"?

Also, since this is my active LL boot drive, can I convert it to RAID1 without having to format it? I have the new "mirror" disk ready to be installed, but don't want to damage my LL boot drive.

Hard drive will not mount

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:51:42 +0800

Got this answer... on 2 computers:
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/tina/TOSHIBA EXT 4TB new: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000" "/dev/sdb2" "/media/tina/TOSHIBA EXT 4TB new"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.
Is this fixable? Someone unplugged it while copying files....Tried it on two different Linuc Lite computers.
If you have an answer, please tell me what to copy paste into the terminal because I am limited in my understanding.

Data disk not visible

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:55:52 +0800

Hi everyone
I am quite fresh at Linux. I have dual boot win+Lin and two partitions: windows + programs and Linux installation along and another data partition. The problem is that Data partition is not visible in File manager. I can see windows and other programs, but data is not visible. In partition manager it says 1TB Data, unknown.

xfburn: silently skips certain files

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 12:36:39 +0800

Hi Guys,

I'm puzzling over this one. :032: Just trying to backup a 4GB USB stick to DVD. Want to use the stick to install LL5.6.

Copied the contents to Hard Disk, then tried to write to DVD using xfburn. Appeared to complete without any problems, but didn't hang about to watch it.

I note there is no Verify option in xfburn. Is there an alternative that has that feature?

Anyway, to workaround, then used an old Windows Utility (WinDiff) on a Windows PC to do a bitwise compare of the source and DVD data.

Thus discovered that 300-odd files where missing from the DVD. They are "randomly" scattered throughout the source, typically one or two files per bottom-level directory. Mainly the most important files. >

I suspected that the file structure went too deep, but as I understand, the maximum path length is 256 (or is it 255?) characters. Did a sample check, found it was only 156 characters deep. The missing files are on the Hard Disk...

Could it be I have filenames that are too long, or what is the likely problem, please? Is the path/filename length different on Optical media?

The fact that these omissions happen silently is a bit scary! :o

Linux (LL) compatible SSD

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:36:58 +0800

Hi. I need your help regarding internal SSDs. I am not tech savvy so please pardon me if my questions sound absurd to you:
1. Will internal SSD work with a very old (12-year-old) laptop?
2. Are there specific SSD brands/models that are compatible with Linux particularly with Linux Lite (LL is the only OS in this computer)? Some lesser known SSD brands include compatibility with Linux in their product description but I’m worried about their durability. The more known brands do not specify that they are compatible with Linux.
I asked because I replaced the original 320GB HDD (using only 15% OS + files) of my ASUS K401N with a Kingston 240GB A400 SSD 2.5'' SATA. I chose this because the memory (4GB) is also Kingston, and I believe, it’s a reliable low-cost brand. It fit perfectly, computer recognized it, but every time I would install LL 5.4 (always clean install, “Erase Disk and Install Linux” type) there was always a problem after another i.e. error in copying files during installation; cannot open an App; Install updates error (which I posted 2 issues in Installing Software section of the forum); Busybox Initramfs error every time I would reboot, etc. I never had trouble installing and using LL with the old HDD. After around 15 re-install attempts, I realized it was the SSD causing the problem. So for now I’m back with the HDD but I’d like to make it work faster so I want to replace the drive with an SSD.
3. Is there anything that I should do first like formatting the SSD for LL, etc.?

Thanks very much for your input!