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NTFS Corrupted HDD

I just installed a new HDD in my computer. I booted up and formated it in NTFS and copied about 500 GB of Videos onto it. My computer (few hours later) froze while a was watching a video off that ...
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Trying to fix a corrupted ntfs through ubuntu. Could I get some code help?

Windows won't boot but I think both my HDDs still work because they are recognized in other computers and in BIOS. I'm trying to fix them through Ubuntu USB using this tutorial on ...
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Having trouble with mounting the hardisk

My Seagate USB hard disk won't mount. fdisk -l reports: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * ...
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Ubuntu won't install [closed]

I get a errno 5 input/output message. Is the CD disc not oK? Or maybe some of my partions aren't ok. I tried chdsk but it didn't worked. What should I do?
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Raid Shows Up as Multiple Drives - Can't Mount

I have a single hard drive that the OS is installed on and I have Sil raid card installed with two matching 500GB hdds set up in Raid 0 and formatted- they're completely empty. For whatever reason ...
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What are the benefits (or drawbacks) in creating file-system directly on hard drive rather than on a partition? [closed]

For an example, what are the advantages (or optionally disadvantages) of creating a Linux file-system (ext3 or ext4) directly on hard drive (i.e mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb) rather than making it on a ...