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