Not able to access external drive

heretical_1

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Good morning, everybody! I had an issue with the computer suddenly shutting off recently (running on a weak battery bank, can only do so when the sun is shining fully on the solar panel...one itty bitty cloud moves in front of the sun, and everything shuts off with no warning). Yesterday, the external hard drive that was plugged in when this happened began to give me an issue. It shows up in the directory, but when I click on it to open, I am not able to access it (and yes, I did use the search function with the title of this post before making this post!).
I had a different problem a couple of months or so back using an entirely different os (peppermint), and I have followed the same analytical procedures this time as were outlined for me when that event happened, and am including the screenshots of every step I took along with the results.
Running antiX on a stick.
Thanks!
 

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you'll probably want someone more familiar with debian based distros to chime in but I think you need to repair the filesystem. https://www.baeldung.com/linux/fat32-file-system-repair has some details on that and remediation steps (fat16 should behave like fat32 in regards to fsck as far as I am aware).
 


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