Re: issues with storage media

2020-07-26 Thread David
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 03:59, Semih Ozlem wrote: > [...] the format of the disk was changed to FAT or something like that. > I have no idea why and how this happened. Does anyone have any clues Hi, it's very hard to help you when you are so uncertain of the facts. If you want to be less helples

Re: issues with storage media

2020-07-25 Thread Andrew Cater
Parted / gparted are useful tools. The live .iso is very useful if you have an unknown disk - you can boot into linux to examine disk formats. The crucial thing to know is that most partitions can be recovered with enough care. USB keys - try and buy a known brand. Stick small labels on them. Know

Re: issues with storage media

2020-07-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-25 10:59, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hi Hello. :-) As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently 20). Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs type

issues with storage media

2020-07-25 Thread Semih Ozlem
Hi I ran into the following problems a few times. As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently 20). Question 1 An external hard disk that I use (which is I think possibly failing) was formatted in NTFS. While I was working on a machine at the university where I used