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I have used my hard drive for months with three others computers with ubuntu 10.04 and another 12.10 and suddenly it stopped working. It doesn't want to mount and the error message says:

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How can I access my hard disk again?

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If the drive was NTFS (likely if you used it on a windows machine), you may want to follow the advice in the warning message. Connect the drive to a windows machine and use the chkdik utility as described.

Unfortunately, now may be the time to put your data backup strategy to the test (sometimes disks fail).

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OP says that the old machines were also Ubuntu.

Can you check that the drive still works on any of the old machines (or any other machine)? If it doesn't work on another machine, then you likely have a disk failure.

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