I'm a Linux Noob! Need Help Mounting!

[tek inpektor]

Okay, so I have a laptop that was running Xubuntu and then it wouldn't boot from hdd because something happened and I don't know how to fix it.

The error was something like:

3.9xxxxxxxxxxx ACPI PCC (followed by other stuff)

 

Anyways, I couldn't boot from the HDD. (34GB)

 

I booted from a USB drive by selecting 'Try Xubuntu without installing'

(a bootable USB obviously)

 

And on the desktop, it shows a 29GB Volume but it won't mount when I click on it or right click and select mount volume. An error comes up with this:

 

Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/xubuntu/387b9e6b-887c-479e-8586-a71e645d9745: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda1" "/media/xubuntu/387b9e6b-887c-479e-8586-a71e645d9745"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

 

I just need to get into that volume and move some files to my Google Drive and then I'm going to format the partition. The files have hours of work thrown into them and I don't want to lose them. If you can help me mount the HDD, I'd be very happy.

[SubTract]

What happens when you try to mount it normally? without any flags?

mkdir /media/localHDDmount /dev/sda1 /media/localHDD

[Zeldhoron]

3.9xxxx ACPI PCC probe failed is nothing.

Its a driver failing to load because it can't find its hardware to work with.

 

Try without any flags first as SubTract said.

 

Could you also post the syslog ?

/var/log/syslog

[tek inpektor]

 

What happens when you try to mount it normally? without any flags?

mkdir /media/localHDDmount /dev/sda1 /media/localHDD

cannot create directory ‘/media/localHDD’: Permission denied

 

 

3.9xxxx ACPI PCC probe failed is nothing.

Its a driver failing to load because it can't find its hardware to work with.

 

Try without any flags first as SubTract said.

 

Could you also post the syslog ?

/var/log/syslog

I don't know what a syslog is. Sorry.

[ColonelPanic]

cannot create directory ‘/media/localHDD’: Permission denied

 

 

I don't know what a syslog is. Sorry.

 

Boot up the live disk, try mounting the drive normally (by clicking it) click ok to the error.

Open up a terminal window, and then type in 'cat /var/log/syslog' without the quotation marks, and post it here

Here's a snippet of mine as an example

Oct 31 20:56:01 Kylie udisksd[1946]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message busOct 31 20:56:01 Kylie NetworkManager[781]: <info> WiFi hardware radio set enabledOct 31 20:56:13 Kylie NetworkManager[781]: <info> (eth0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.Oct 31 20:56:13 Kylie NetworkManager[781]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled...Oct 31 20:56:13 Kylie NetworkManager[781]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started...Oct 31 20:56:13 Kylie NetworkManager[781]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.Oct 31 20:56:21 Kylie kernel: [   37.793376] audit_printk_skb: 105 callbacks suppressed

[Zeldhoron]

cannot create directory ‘/media/localHDD’: Permission denied

 

 

I don't know what a syslog is. Sorry.

 

use sudo

sudo mkdir ...

sudo mount ...

 

syslog is a file