Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it
did give this error message when I tried to access it -
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Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line
`mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1"
"/media/boudiccas/back1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount:
wrong fs
type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper
program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -
try
dmesg | tail or so
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Is there any way in which I can access the contents of the drive please?
If not, is it safe to format it and re-use it please? If so, what should
I format it as ? ext3? ext4? Or something else?