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Run testdisk from usb7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() *=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics: Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition. (27) Down the botttom, the menu says: Structure: Ok. (26) Got to this screen: The following partition can't be recovered: (25) I am stupid and need to read menus better. (24) Disk contents shows up - or do they? Seems to be showing the contents of my desktop HDD, not the USB one…? (17) It mounts as sdh - do not mess with this or with main HDD in testdisk! ![]() (15) Decide to grab the files and write them to my other backup disk. (12) Quit told me to reboot, but it is a USB disk not THE disk, so did not - was that a mistake? (11) Write partition structure to disk - OK (1) Check free space on new backup drive, then detach it (I don’t want to do anything to it by mistake) As usual, the volume name showed up in the file manager ( caja I use MATE) but it threw the error. Put it back in it’s original enclosure and plugged it in. I tried to mount the disk using a different enclosure. I put a different HDD in the enclosure and that did mount, so it was not the enclosure electronics failing. I tried mounting it on other computers, it would not. This was the error is was giving: Error message Everything on it was either somewhere else or not required, but it was still annoying.Īfter first using rsync to back my home directory up to a new USB HDD, I decided to use testdisk to see what I could see on the old one. My backup USB (Samsung StoryStation) disk failed.
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