I've been using Ubuntu 24.04 for a while now without any major issues, but after opening a game on Steam recently, my whole system froze hard. I rebooted, and now I'm facing issues with my secondary drive that holds all my Steam files. Initially, it wouldn't mount and displayed an error, but after running a disk repair using the built-in tools, it mounted again. However, I'm still encountering disk writing errors and can't access the files on the drive; it just gives me errors stating it can't display the files. I checked the drive's health with the system tools, and they say it's fine.
I suspect the crash corrupted some files, and I'm wondering if there's a solution short of reformatting the drive. It's NTFS formatted from a previous Windows system, so I'm thinking that could be part of the issue too. Any suggestions? I'd prefer not to reformat, but since I won't lose anything important, I'm open to it if necessary. Thanks for any help!
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You might want to try using `chkdsk` on a Windows machine to correct any NTFS errors. However, if the drive isn't crucial, I'd just go ahead and format it to ext4 or another Linux-native filesystem. It’ll save you future headaches!
Looks like when I restart the PC, I keep getting a "wrong fs type" error on the drive, so yeah, the filesystem is messed up. I'm definitely going to reformat now. Lesson learned for sure!”}]}},{