How can I fix 'run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice' without using Windows?

[Erik Rasmussen]

What is the best way to resolve the below error and make the USB thumb drive usable again without a loss of data and without using M$ Windows?

When attempting to access this USB thumb drive, I receive the below error:

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An error occurred while accessing 'USB Drive Name', the system responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 12: $MFTMirr does not match $MFG (record 0).

Failed to mount '/dev/sdd1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the devices is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.

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(NOTE: It is a simple USB thumb drive, not RAID anything.)

[Tom]

Are you mounting it with a -t option like this:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mountpoint

What's the OS?

Otherwise, copy everything off and reformat it?
Looks like it thinks there should be a duplicate of the master file table and it's not consistent with the primary copy. Looks like the device is formatted NTFS. The NTFS drivers in Linux can't fix many of the filesystem problems that can occur.

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[Erik Rasmussen]

It is a USB thumb drive with various files on it, but there is no OS on the USB thumb drive.  

I'm just trying to access this USB thumb drive using a Debian-based Linux distro, and I'm not doing anything special to manually mount it...I'm just inserting the USB thumb drive and then accessing it via Dolphin.  Dolphin is where I'm getting that error message.  

I guess NTFS was chosen so that it's files could be accessed on Windows too, if needed.  But it seems that NTFS is somewhat finicky, and perhaps that wasn't a wise choice.  Any opinions on a more reliable file system that is accessible from Linux and also compatible for read oprations on Windows?

Is there something I can do or run from a Debian based Linux distro that can fix the NTFS file system on this thumb drive (so that I don't have to fix it using Windows)?

Thanks!
-Erik Rasmussen

[Dale Noll]

If you have ntfsfix on you system, I have had good luck with that.  I use it from a system rescue disto boot.  I usually am trying to salvage data from a flaky hard drive do I work on an image created with dd_rescue. That way if something goes wrong I still have the original.

[apgarcia]

just curious, can you still access it from windows? i haven't seen that particular error message, but i've had windows-formatted usb sticks that i couldn't access from linux. windows still reads them just fine. it's annoying.