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by crashtech
Yesterday, 04:19
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."
Replies: 7
Views: 6907

Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

I appreciate the help so far, it will take me a while to try this so I have a few questions before I start this process.

If I remember correctly I started TestDisk as:"testdisk" but then with sudo as prompted by TestDisk, I think it shows in the log. Do I need to run "su" first and then run ...
by crashtech
11 Mar 2026, 08:36
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."
Replies: 7
Views: 6907

Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

Here is the testdisk log file:



Mon Mar 2 16:04:56 2026
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 6.12.73+deb13-amd64 (#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.73-1 (2026-02-17 ...
by crashtech
05 Mar 2026, 21:59
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."
Replies: 7
Views: 6907

Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

(Edit: images are posted as links, hopefully this works better)

Hello, I'm hoping I can recover my external drive which has files important to me. Any help is appreciated.

OS: Debian 13 - Gnome
Hard Drive trying to recover: External USB HDD - 4TB WD MyBook - NTFS

What happened: The drive was ...