"some contents unreadable" on HDD
by acnestis from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54558)
Hi Group!
Hope you can help me out here.
I have 3 HDD's and an SSD installed, that can be selectively powered-on by push-button switches - no sense spinning HDD's when they're not needed.
My Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 is installed on a 1TB WD Black, and works well.
A week ago, I wanted to transfer some files from the WD drive to the 1TB Toshiba drive, so I powered-it up also before booting to Linux on the WD drive.
Booted O.K. (as usual)
But, when I went to look at the Toshiba drive in "properties", it said "Some contents unreadable" - 50GB roughly.
I wrote a short file to it, and can read it as well.
Any ideas on how to access these 50GB of my files?
From Toshiba Properties:
Name: Toshiba
Type: Folder (inode/directory)
Contents: 1 item (and 1 hidden), with size 172.7 kB
(some contents unreadable)
Location: /media/ralph
Volume: Toshiba
Free Space: 933.3 GB
50.1 GB used
933.3 GB free
Total Capacity: 983.4 GB
Filesystem type: EXT3/EXT4
I can read & write to/from the drive, but can't reach the 50 GB of my previously-written files.
I really don't understand what has gone wrong here.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
- Ralph


Hope you can help me out here.
I have 3 HDD's and an SSD installed, that can be selectively powered-on by push-button switches - no sense spinning HDD's when they're not needed.
My Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 is installed on a 1TB WD Black, and works well.
A week ago, I wanted to transfer some files from the WD drive to the 1TB Toshiba drive, so I powered-it up also before booting to Linux on the WD drive.
Booted O.K. (as usual)
But, when I went to look at the Toshiba drive in "properties", it said "Some contents unreadable" - 50GB roughly.
I wrote a short file to it, and can read it as well.
Any ideas on how to access these 50GB of my files?
From Toshiba Properties:
Name: Toshiba
Type: Folder (inode/directory)
Contents: 1 item (and 1 hidden), with size 172.7 kB
(some contents unreadable)
Location: /media/ralph
Volume: Toshiba
Free Space: 933.3 GB
50.1 GB used
933.3 GB free
Total Capacity: 983.4 GB
Filesystem type: EXT3/EXT4
I can read & write to/from the drive, but can't reach the 50 GB of my previously-written files.
I really don't understand what has gone wrong here.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
- Ralph