Failed to mount ': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware.

Q. I am getting following error when I mounted my external HDD in Ubuntu Linux and getting below error. root@linuxnix.com:~# mount -t ntfs /dev/sde1 /mnt $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sde1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different...

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mount: could not find any free loop device

mount: could not find any free loop device solution This is the error you will get when mounting an ISO or img file. This is due to limitations of number of loop devices available in a machine. To eliminate this error we have to unmount unnecessary images before mounting any other image file in the machine...

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