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I am trying to mount two hard disks in a microserver running Centos 7. Both disks contain large amounts of data and were previously used in a Windows machine so are NTFS format.

I have created two directories to use as mountpoints - /media/drive1 and /media/drive2. I have the EPEL repo installed and have installed ntfs-3g.

When I try mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/drive1 I get the following:

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition 9e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

I get the same error when trying to mount /dev/sdb1 to /media/drive2.

I am fairly new to Linux and this is the first time I have tried mounting an NTFS drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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  • Use fdisk to analyse the format of the partitions "man fdisk" for further details – Raman Sailopal Jul 18 '17 at 10:23
  • It could be that Windows enabled BitLocker without you knowing it, which is what happened on my system (Windows 10 Pro). Run `blkid` and look for `TYPE="BitLocker"`... – luttztfz Aug 23 '21 at 13:43

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