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When I try to mount my ADATA USB HDD in my machine I get the following :

    Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
    Failed to read of MFT, mft=6 count=1 br=-1: Input/output error
    Failed to open inode FILE_Bitmap: Input/output error
    Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': 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.

This is info for the drive :

    Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 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: 0xf6e3fc42

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdc1              63   625137344   312568641    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Anyone know a solution for this?? And if there aren't any, how can I backup the data on the drive before formatting it?

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Do you have access to a Windows box to try to mount the drive there? If you can't mount it on Windows then most likely the filesystem is corrupted. Maybe run chkdsk /f on Windows as the error message suggests. – Sergey Aug 31 '12 at 0:07
If you can get access to a Windows machine try to fix the file system as described in the first error message. edit: @Sergey was 22 seconds faster ;-) – stonedsquirrel Aug 31 '12 at 0:07
I did try to execute the 'chkdsk /f' and nothing. Whenever I do any kind of operations on the drive the light in it keeps blinking fast for about five minutes and the operation is still loading, once the light stops blinking and goes still the operation reports a fail. I can't even read it in windows, I open up computer management and wait for it to load up and it just gives a not responding for about 20 minutes and then says failure to read drive. Is there anyway at all to read the data on it or back it up? this looks more like a hardware failure than a driver problem or something like that. – Jack Mayerz Aug 31 '12 at 0:54
You could make an image of the partition with dd, but that puts more stress on the disk and it may finally break before the operation is finished. – LiveWireBT Aug 31 '12 at 2:47

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