Thanks, @recuperation. This is an external spinning rust
WD My Passport drive. Running testdisk, it appears that the disk
itself is damaged. My strategy is now to run ddrescue to copy
the disk image, and then run photorec on the image.
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- 12 Jul 2021, 15:49
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: file recovery from 1 TB exernal drive
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- 11 Jul 2021, 22:18
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: file recovery from 1 TB exernal drive
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file recovery from 1 TB exernal drive
Hello,
I have an external drive formatted as NTFS, and I was viewing it recently
from my linux machine. I may have done a very dumb thing - deleted a System Info
directory on the drive. Now I can't open the drive : testdisk tells me the file system
is damaged and can't be mounted.
I ran photorec ...
I have an external drive formatted as NTFS, and I was viewing it recently
from my linux machine. I may have done a very dumb thing - deleted a System Info
directory on the drive. Now I can't open the drive : testdisk tells me the file system
is damaged and can't be mounted.
I ran photorec ...