Unable to mount 1TB USB external HDD - Error
- by superbDeveloper
Hi,
I'm getting an error when I plug in my 1TB USB external HDD, the wierd thing about this is that it was working fine before and I've been using it for about a couple of months now. yesterday I compressed one of the folders which had about 120GB of data but the compression failed after an hour and I decided to unmount the drive and shut everything down. 
Today when I tried to plug in the drive I got the following error:
  Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type,
  bad option, bad superblock on
  /dev/sdc,
         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
         dmesg | tail  or so
output of cat /proc/partitions below
  muzikayise@muzikayise-supercom:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
  
  Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x39dcba64
  
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
please will someone kindly assist with this?
thanks in advance,