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I'm a newbie on here so be gentle!

I cannot mount a portable drive on Linux Mint, current version. It worked ok to a few days ago.

This is the problem

Unable to mount 1TB Portable Drv
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/brian/1TB Portable Drv: can't read superblock

When I try to mount in Nemo, I get error msg: Unable to mount. An operation is already pending.

I get this in Disk Usage Analyser: could not analyse volume. An operation is already pending.

I can attach a screenshop of Disk utility but don't know how to do this.. It recognises drive but states that it is not mounted.

I have data on drive I would really like to salvage. mainly about 5000 photos and videos I took on recent 3 month expedition to Africa

I downloaded a TestDisk from CGSecurity and this is output:

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 P Linux 0 32 33 121601 57 56 1953521664 [1TB Portable Drv]
No partition is bootable

I'm afraid to do anyting else in case I wreck data on drive.

Any advice?

Many thanks

What is the output of "fsck -p /dev/sdb1" ?