
This is my situation:
- two disk setup in softraid on Ubuntu, raid partition was ext4
- after brakedown one disk was unaccessable, raid was running in degradeable state
- despite that I wasn't able to access files (raid refused to mount, disks were busy ... etc), so I tried different solutions (I was not aware of testdisk at the time)
- once I started fsck.exe4 and got some errors, I think there was something cleared (??? I don't remember after everything I already tried)
- after a while disk was online again but some important folders were missing, of course I made a copy of existing files
But how to get lost folder? I am running photorec now to recover files, but it will take a day or two to finish. What worries me is that I mostly get jpgs (they are mostly fine) and many useless .txt files. Important files like Photoshop .psd and InDesign .indd are corrupted.
Should I use testdisk instead photorec? How - I don't get undelete options, I can only see partition.
Thanks, I would appreciate any help-