Failed to mount USB drive (Samsung 4TB) - how to fix this?

[ralphy]

[member=458]m654321[/member],


GPT (GUID Partition Table) is the way to go for volumes bigger than 2TB, so you are good there.


The one bad sector out of 4TB drive is not such a bad thing; it isn't necessarily the death knell for the drive. It is perfectly ok for a disk to have bad sectors as long as they aren't on the boot sector. Hard disk manufacturers hide the fact a brand new disk has bad blocks with the firmware, when you buy a brand new disk it will have in all probability bad blocks already, the firmware will detect newly grown badblocks and maps them out from a set of spare cylinders it has, but this only happens when a write operation occurs on that sector and the ECC algorithm detects bit failure, only then will it map the block out. If you notice a few months later that your drive has developed more bad sectors then it's time to start shopping for a replacement or sending it back (RMA). For now, I wouldn't bother.


With that said, I believe all you are missing at this point is the correct mount options to be able to read and write on that drive. Lite Manual has instructions you can follow to complete those steps. See:


https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/insta...partdrives