External Drive I/O Error (SOLVED)

[kafka75]

Hi Everyone, I have an external drive with music and movies on it that I use as a backup. I am able to read the drive and watch movies but when I try to copy anything to the drive I get this, Error while copying Error creating directory:Input/Output error. Every thing was fine until yesterday (computer is on 24/7 and I did reboot and remount after the problem started) Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
150 year old HP Pavilion
512 Ram.

[oobetimer]

Hi Everyone, I have an external drive with music and movies on it that I use as a backup. I am able to read the drive and watch movies but when I try to copy anything to the drive I get this, Error while copying Error creating directory:Input/Output error. Every thing was fine until yesterday (computer is on 24/7 and I did reboot and remount after the problem started) Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
150 year old HP Pavilion
512 Ram.

Are you an owner of the drive?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux ... wner-name/

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_chown.htm

http://www.linuxhelp.net/newbies/

PS. Maybe root is an owner (not any person) ..

[kafka75]

Yes I do own the drive but I get permissions could not be determined even as root. The drive is formatted NTFS if that helps. Thanks.

[kafka75]

Hey Everyone. I hooked up my drive to a Windows machine and ran chkdsk. It fixed some errors and now it has no issues with read/write. Kiitos yrittää auttaa oobetimer (not sure if I translated that right) But thanks.