So I was watching a show on Plex this morning absolutely fine off my Rapsberry Pi 4B and then later today I went to add a new movie to my server on Windows File Explorer and the file explorer just crashed and wouldn’t open my hard drive which I use for my server. I went onto plex and tested it to see if it was working where it took a long time to load and then said that it can’t retrieve content. I then went back into file explorer and the hard drive wouldn’t open. I then plugged it into my computer with an adapter and it didn’t show up as being plugged in or working. But when plugged back into the raspberry pi the movies show fine on plex but it says unavailable next to each film. Is this a sign of a failing Hard Drive or something else? I haven’t touched it at all and it has just started to play up??
Please help thanks
Yes. If you can’t access the drive from a normal computer, it’s failing.
Any time a hard drive becomes intermittent, it’s time to be proactive
Yes but it’s been working fine recently and I haven’t done anything to it? Surely there would be a reason to it failing?
Is there a way to recover everything on it?
Thanks
a lightbulb works until it doesn.t
I’ve been using data recovery software to recover the files on the hard drive and the drive itself isn’t making any strange noises and seems to be working fine. I can also view all my movies through the data recovery software but can’t through file explorer which is strange? I reckon there is something corrupt in the hard drive? Would you agree with this? Thanks for the help
Yes, The drive has corrupted itself / is in failure mode. The recovery software is showing you a reconstructed view of what it can retrieve.
Your best course of action is to copy everything it can provide to another disk as quickly as possible and discard the old disk.
I’ve been trying to resolve this issue as I have been in quarantine the last few weeks and think I know what’s gone wrong. The file system has changed from NTFS to RAW and I need to convert it back to NTFS without formatting it as I will loose everything that was on my plex server. Any recommendations or ways to recover it for free? Thanks
A drive doesn’t fall to ‘RAW’ by itself.
If the file system is so badly corrupted that Linux can’t tell, it will probably report as “RAW”
ntfsfix is the only hope if NTFS.
I actually use a Windows PC but use my Plex server on a Raspberry Pi 4 and use it remotely through ssh on my computer and the hard drive that has failed is plugged into the Raspberry Pi through USB.
Would NTFSFix work through ssh remotely?
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