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I created a dd image and then decided to just run the fsck –y despite the errors – seemed to work.

I’m able to mount now. I think I got all or at least most of my files back.

Thanks for all the help.

@dns323sucks - reading through these 2 links helped me:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk ...

I also ran the Superblock function in Testdisk and got the following:

Disk /dev/sdd - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63

Partition Start End Size in sectors

> Linux 130 0 1 243200 254 56 3904935608
superblock 0, blocksize=4096 []
superblock 32768, blocksize=4096 []
superblock 98304 ...

Thanks for the response and sorry for delay. I took some time create a image of the partition first - just in case.

Here's the response from running the command. I'm running live CD so, the device changed to sdd3.

fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
/dev/sdd3: Note: if several inode or block bitmap blocks ...

I believe my drive was formatted in error by my dns-323 nas.

I ran testdisk, analyzed, and wrote back what I believe to be the right partitions: 1 swap, 1 primary, 2nd primary (ext2 I think). When I plug the drive into usb 3 HD dock, Ubuntu is able to automatically mount and read the files from ...