My HDD disc folders are shown as empty, but full when checked in terminal

[Plutous]

I had dual booted ubuntu and windows, my disc was working fine, i tried using windows to access my HDD hard disk which i use separately from the SSD hard disck which i use for operating systems. I couldn't access through windows, and when i tried using ubuntu, it shows disc empty. I decided to reformat the whole thing and installed pop os instead, erasing both linux and windows, the problem still remains, how can I access the files?

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Disk model: KBG30ZMT256G TOSHIBA
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xed0eb485

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 * 4096 2097150 2093055 1022M 83 Linux /dev/nvme0n1p2 2097152 491725486 489628335 233.5G 83 Linux /dev/nvme0n1p3 491725488 500114094 8388607 4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: ST1000LM035-1RK1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x7503be49

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 1953521663 1953519616 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 29.56 GiB, 31744589824 bytes, 62001152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 778135908 1919645538 1141509631 544.3G 72 unknown /dev/mmcblk0p2 168689522 2104717761 1936028240 923.2G 65 Novell Netware 38 /dev/mmcblk0p3 1869881465 3805909656 1936028192 923.2G 79 unknown /dev/mmcblk0p4 2885681152 2885736650 55499 27.1M d unknown

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptdata: 233.46 GiB, 250672930304 bytes, 489595567 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/data-root: 233.45 GiB, 250668384256 bytes, 489586688 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap: 4 GiB, 4294442496 bytes, 8387583 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/zram0: 11.27 GiB, 12104761344 bytes, 2955264 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

[Eigenvektor]

Just to be clear, you formatted the SSD, which contained the operating systems, and reinstalled PopOS.

 

You are trying to access files on the HDD, which you didn't format?

 

Do you know what type of file system is on that disk?

[Guest]

Natively Windows is unable to access Linux file systems. There are a number of ways, but the easiest is to install WSL from Microsoft.

[Plutous]

2 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Just to be clear, you formatted the SSD, which contained the operating systems, and reinstalled PopOS.

 

You are trying to access files on the HDD, which you didn't format?

 

Do you know what type of file system is on that disk?

That is correct, the file system is NFTS

[Plutous]

2 hours ago, Thomas4 said:

Natively Windows is unable to access Linux file systems. There are a number of ways, but the easiest is to install WSL from Microsoft.

I was actually able to access it for years in linux, this had just happened yesterday, I have no idea why

[BoomerDutch]

6 hours ago, Plutous said:

/dev/sda1 2048 1953521663 1953519616 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Are you talking about this hdd?

[Guest]

No, NTFS and fat are Windows formatted partitions.

The standard Linux format is ext4 but there are others such as btfs, ext2, and ext3

[Needfuldoer]

[ Moved to Troubleshooting ]

 

Can you boot back into Windows and let CHKDSK scan the drive?

 

If the contents are accessible via terminal, copy the most important stuff to another drive first. Just to be safe.

[Plutous]

8 hours ago, BoomerDutch said:

Are you talking about this hdd?

yes, this one

[Plutous]

7 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

[ Moved to Troubleshooting ]

 

Can you boot back into Windows and let CHKDSK scan the drive?

 

If the contents are accessible via terminal, copy the most important stuff to another drive first. Just to be safe.

I'll try, thank you.

[Plutous]

had dual booted ubuntu and windows, my disc was working fine, i tried using windows to access my HDD hard disk which i use separately from the SSD hard disck which i use for operating systems. I couldn't access through windows, and when i tried using ubuntu, it shows disc empty. I decided to reformat the whole thing and installed pop os instead, erasing both linux and windows, the problem still remains, how can I access the files?

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Disk model: KBG30ZMT256G TOSHIBA
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xed0eb485

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 * 4096 2097150 2093055 1022M 83 Linux /dev/nvme0n1p2 2097152 491725486 489628335 233.5G 83 Linux /dev/nvme0n1p3 491725488 500114094 8388607 4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: ST1000LM035-1RK1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x7503be49

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 1953521663 1953519616 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 29.56 GiB, 31744589824 bytes, 62001152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 778135908 1919645538 1141509631 544.3G 72 unknown /dev/mmcblk0p2 168689522 2104717761 1936028240 923.2G 65 Novell Netware 38 /dev/mmcblk0p3 1869881465 3805909656 1936028192 923.2G 79 unknown /dev/mmcblk0p4 2885681152 2885736650 55499 27.1M d unknown

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptdata: 233.46 GiB, 250672930304 bytes, 489595567 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/data-root: 233.45 GiB, 250668384256 bytes, 489586688 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap: 4 GiB, 4294442496 bytes, 8387583 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/zram0: 11.27 GiB, 12104761344 bytes, 2955264 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes