You've reformatted the drive as ext4, it's mounted so you should be able to use it. As for recovering old data, please watch this https://youtu.be/hmpY8TlBck4?si=n_bShpwN10K9WPd6
#I think I fkd up my external HDD by reformatting it from ntfs to ext4
celest trench
celest trench
Since you have info on correct partition in the log file, you can stop the deep search as soon as the required partition is displayed in the list
celest trench
What does lsblk --fs say in the terminal?
celest trench
Yes, you seem to have 3 partitions on sdb
And you're having troubles with sdb6?
Have you tried to mount it manually?
You can try from here too, select partition 6 and make a screenshot
and press the play (triangle button)
Alright, click close, then go to terminal and type sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb6
Alright, try mounting it again
Was your F drive 730 gb?
That's partition 1, what happens if you try to mount it?
It doesn't seem to have a filesystem. Was that the one you deleted and then recovered?
Can you select it, and take a screenshot?
I'm guessing your username is ryzen ?
Alright lets try this, create a folder in your home, let's say test, then go to the terminal and type
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/ryzen/test
Your drive can't be ext4, Windows can't see ext4 and other partitions are ntfs
If you look at the Disks app, you can see that Partition 5 and 6 are both 365 gb, if you sum it up, you'll get 730 gb which is the size of partition 1. You can't mount partition 1 because there is nothing to mount, it's a "container" for partitions 5 and 6
guess so
I'll see what I can find
What is your reason for updating the kernel?
Also, do you need the data on partitions 5 and 6 ?
yes
Can you copy the important stuff elsewhere temporary?
rugged vale
if this doesnt fix anything, try the older version of the kernel you are using rn too, that fixed lots of issues for me, just depends ont he situation
celest trench
Then the easiest way would be to copy important stuff from partitions 5 and 6 elsewhere, then delete partitions 1 5 and 6, after that create 1 big partition.
rugged vale
really no proper answer to that, although for most hardware support for ubuntu is in the higher version kernels
linux mint is based on ubuntu just so you know
celest trench
As for kernels, LTS versions are 5.15 (default for Mint 21.2) and 6.1 (or 6.2 for mint)
rugged vale
you should try switching to di fferent versions of the kernel version itself like 6.2.whatever
celest trench
You're welcome
celest trench
Try Gparted (you can get it from software manager), it's a nice gui tool for it
You should be able to work with it while mounted too. Just make sure you have sdb selected in the program, so that you don't ruin ssd
Screenshots would be nice
See if you can also delete extended
Great, now just create a new partition
Yeah, those are fine. Then click on the green checkmark button to apply changes
If there are no error (there shouldn't be), that's it, mount it back up and use it
Sure, try that.
Cool, you should see 1 partition there as ext4, so you can mount and use that
Again, I can't see your monitor, so screenshots would help
Try copying a file or folder first, then see the permissions
Alright, yeah then take ownership