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I have a big problem with one usb drive: I was copying something on it when for some strange reason, the power went out. I have no battery in my laptop so it immediately shut down. After my laptop went back online, i tried to access my USB drive but nothing shows when browsing for it. Tried on windows, OS X, even my TV but it does not mount for some reason.

I tried searching for it in terminal but after using: sudo fdisk -l i got nothing special.. 

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfca4ac74

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848    84092927    41943040    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3        84092928   209922047    62914560    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       209922048   488394751   139236352    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

any ideas?

Florian Diesch
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Mircea Udrea
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Is this drive setup to automount in fstab? If so just try 

 mount -a

If not, or if that dont help, Its probably corrupted. Is there info on it you need?

If not, launch GParted as root

sudo apt-get install gparted

Press Alt+F2 and type

 gksudo gparted 

then it will ask for your password and then it should run as root.

Does the drive show here and give any info? If there nothing on it, just repartition and format

Edit: If you do need to salvage info, I found a post where someone had similar issue and recovered files with PhotoRec

Once recovery done then do the gparted steps.

Disclaimer: I have not ever used PhotoRec

geoffmcc
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