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If “No file found, filesystem may be damaged.” appears, is this a lost cause, or is there still a way to recover the partition or undelete the files? I have some disks in ext4 and others in ntfs. I am using a dual boot Windows 7 / Linux Mint system.

I have looked at the one partition of interest, and there are a lot of files that go as far back as 2007. I only need the files from 2017. Is there some way to sort the files by date?

Even if testdisk is unabe to list the files, it's still possible to use PhotoRec to recover your data.

Thank you. I am working against time it seems. My backup drive just stopped mounting all of a sudden. I cannot go for the whole partition as this is the largest drive I have (2 TB). Just before the accident it reported 1.5 TB used. For this drive I have to rescue the all instances of the Archives folder, if I can.

After that there is another drive that is only 500 GB. So that one I will need to use PhotoRec on. Although, I am worried that PhotoRec will not be able to recover my spreadsheets, plain text files, and EXE archives. Most of my files on the 500 GB drive are of this type.

I have a new 1 TB drive, so I am hoping to transfer all of the deleted folders/files that I can find to that first.

I have been working on a new backup plan to avoid this in the future. Plus, I need to resolve not to manage my system when I am getting tired.