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Hi,
I had my office PC crashing while I had the eternal disk drive runing testdisk and it might have made things worse. Here is the current logfile
Sat Feb 22 18:05:32 2025
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www ...

Hello,
I have tried again,
TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 121575 186 19 1953112064 [LaCie]
Directory /

>dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 4-Feb-2025 12:12 .
dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 4-Feb-2025 12:12 ..
dr-xr ...

Assuming you had an NTFS partition as currently listed in your screenshot, try to follow
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/repairing_filesystem.html#testdisk-repairing-ntfs-boot-sector


Itried it, but my external DD is not mountable.


Fri Feb 14 16:53:57 2025
Command line: TestDisk ...

Sorry for this. Here it is again:


Fri Feb 14 16:53:57 2025
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 6.8.0-53-generic (#55-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 17 15:37:52 UTC 2025 ...

i found it insde /home (FYI),
Here it is :


Thu Feb 13 14:28:01 2025
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 6.8.0-53-generic (#55-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 17 15:37:52 ...

Hello,
I do not know how to find the log after I went to "Create"
Here is something though:

Hello,
I have a message in Dolphin (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) when I plug in my 1To external drive : "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1"
I am kind of a noob: I had a hard time launching testdisk in a terminal and then I could not find how to fix this storage (still accessible via ...