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Mounting broken drive in WSL2 #6398

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kryogenic opened this issue Jan 3, 2021 · 1 comment
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Mounting broken drive in WSL2 #6398

kryogenic opened this issue Jan 3, 2021 · 1 comment
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kryogenic commented Jan 3, 2021 •
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I was trying to use WSL to run ddrescue on a drive that failed. When I try to mount the drive I get the following error:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>wsl --mount \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 --bare The system cannot find the file specified.

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Ideally the drive should be mountable since it does show up in Disk Management. screenshot

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Actually this seems to be a general problem with my WSL installation, I cannot seem to mount any drive, flash drive, or other.
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OneBlue commented Jan 25, 2021

@kryogenic: If the disk is broken on Windows, it's expected the WSL can't mount it.

Also, USB flash drives aren't supported at this time.

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