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When I try to open my hard drive it gives this error message:

unable to access location

error mounting/dev/sdb2 at/media/user/b03c28983c285ba: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on/ dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program or other error

3 other hard drives get this same error message.


I got this by using the recommended command:

$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/bare/5
loop1
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/audacity/992
loop2
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/cherrytree/40
loop3
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/core/12834
loop4
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/core18/2409
loop5
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/core20/1405
loop6
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/firefox/1232
loop7
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/core20/1434
loop8
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/firefox/1300
loop9
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
loop10
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99
loop11
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/gtk2-common-themes/13
loop12
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534
loop13
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/handbrake-jz/142
loop14
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/inkscape/10154
loop15
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/krita/64
loop16
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/kde-frameworks-5-core18/32
loop17
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/snap-store/575
loop18
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/snap-store/582
loop19
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/snapd/15177
loop20
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/snapd/15534
loop21
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/10
loop22
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/vlc/2344
loop23
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /snap/steam/6
sda                                                                         
├─sda1
│                                                                           
├─sda2
│    vfat   FAT32       E7F9-81E7                             506.7M     1% /boot/efi
└─sda3
     ext4   1.0         d803ac9e-0507-4496-b9d9-d90a802d3b16  260.4G    36% /
sdb                                                                         
├─sdb1
│    ntfs         System Reserved
│                       3A028F1B028EDAF1                                    
├─sdb2
│    ntfs               B03C28983C285B9A                                    
└─sdb3
     ntfs               DA4C916C4C9143E3                                    
sdc                                                                         
├─sdc1
│    ntfs         System Reserved
│                       809A56959A568814                                    
└─sdc2
     ntfs               A008202D082004BE                                    
sdd                                                                         
└─sdd1
     ntfs         New Volume
                        9894699594697722
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The output of lsblk -l suggests that sdb2 is an ntfs partition.

Firstly check ntfs-3g is installed: apt search ntfs-3g

ntfs-3g/jammy,now 1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic] read/write NTFS driver for FUSE

Then try this:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mnt/

Assuming /mnt is empty or pick another empty directory

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