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I am trying to format my external hard drive which contained some important data and was earlier formatted as exFAT. The external hard drive (Transcend 1TB) was bought 6 months prior and it does not get mounted on Ubuntu. But the drive is visible in disks utility. Following is the image:

Disk

I tried this link for solution as the question contained the same error as I am getting while formatting the hard disk.

As per the link stated I installed gparted after opening it gives me error Input/Output error during read on /dev/sdb.

I ignored the error and after I select my device from drop down of gparted following image is the outcome. enter image description here

Can I retrieve my data and device? If I can not retrieve my data can I format the disk for reuse?

Or is the disk completely damaged?

Furqan Hashim
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Ok here is the result of a bit of research which may answer your question.

Generally exFAT is not seen as a reliable file system. Some people recommend NTFS if you want to share data between Linux and Windows machines

Gparted does not have fully support exFAT. It needs the util-linux package version 2.18 or above for exfat detection. Without that I doubt GParted will be able to do anything to your exFAT disk.

apt search util-linux

will tell you if you have it installed

There does seem to be an alternative driver techrepublic article

If you install this you may get the whole thing working although it should work with the packages mentioned in the comments above

If you are giving up on data recovery and just want to wipe the disk then fdisk should do the job. How to use it is another question

PonJar
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