Thanks talon95, indirectly that link helped me fathom out that the problem was with the USB hard drive, I got this message when trying to manually mount it:
Failed to read last sector (478624480): Invalid argument
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is crrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is crrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2 doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
This was a brand new USB hard drive and didn't work out of the box so I used swissnife to repartition and format it as it didn't work in the first place, it did however work on windows after this and could see both the Fat32 and the NTFS drive so I didn't think there was a problem with the drive.
After seeing the above message I decided to look into formatting again and followed this guide on how to format USB hard drives for NTFS using windows:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer...-usb-ntfs/
I went back to having one partition again (that's how I wanted it in the first place) and after using the above guide I plugged in my USB hard drive and it now works fine.
So thanks very much and hope this might help anyone else that has USB hard drive NTFS problems.
Failed to read last sector (478624480): Invalid argument
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is crrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is crrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2 doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
This was a brand new USB hard drive and didn't work out of the box so I used swissnife to repartition and format it as it didn't work in the first place, it did however work on windows after this and could see both the Fat32 and the NTFS drive so I didn't think there was a problem with the drive.
After seeing the above message I decided to look into formatting again and followed this guide on how to format USB hard drives for NTFS using windows:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer...-usb-ntfs/
I went back to having one partition again (that's how I wanted it in the first place) and after using the above guide I plugged in my USB hard drive and it now works fine.
So thanks very much and hope this might help anyone else that has USB hard drive NTFS problems.
