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HardStroke
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so ive posted about this 2 days ago but ill try again since i dont think i got a good answer

ive got an old hdd that ive connected to my pc

the drive is recognized (kind of) but in disk management it says that its unrecognized and needs to be formatted

can i just access it by assigning it a new letter and not formatting it? it has really important stuff on it and i cant lose it

i dont really know how to use linux for this problem :/

 

 

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i suggest you to use linux for file recovery or making an image from the drive and recover files that way

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Geezzz man I've been telling since yesterday just use Ubuntu already. It's just like creating a windows 10 install usb stick

 

Windows is crap in reading unpartitioned drive. Even if you tried really hard. It will just end up asking to format it.

 

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You don't even need to install it just chose 'Try Ubuntu' and you will be dropped in the desktop.

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6 minutes ago, PiberiusWilde said:

Geezzz man I've been telling since yesterday just use Ubuntu already. It's just like creating a windows 10 install usb stick

 

Windows is crap in reading unpartitioned drive. Even if you tried really hard. It will just end up asking to format it.

 

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You don't even need to install it just chose 'Try Ubuntu' and you will be dropped in the desktop.

13 minutes ago, mahyar said:

i suggest you to use linux for file recovery or making an image from the drive and recover files that way

yeah i got that and i already have it installed and booted

but how do i continue?

i didnt see the disk ints 'disks' and i cant find something online about it

 

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1 minute ago, HardStroke said:

yeah i got that and i already have it installed and booted

but how do i continue?

i didnt see the disk ints 'disks' and i cant find something online about it

 

how big is your drive and do you have enough space for all files in your pc? (for cloning the drive just in case)

anyway 

open a  terminal and and install disk test by 

sudo apt install testdisk

then tell here

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1 minute ago, mahyar said:

how big is your drive and do you have enough space for all files in your pc? (for cloning the drive just in case)

anyway 

open a  terminal and and install disk test by 

sudo apt install testdisk

then tell here

disk is 320gb and i have an additional hdd that i use for games it has around 700 800gb of free space so i have enough space to clone it twice

i just write 'sudo apt install testdisk' in the terminal?

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1 minute ago, HardStroke said:

disk is 320gb and i have an additional hdd that i use for games it has around 700 800gb of free space so i have enough space to clone it twice

i just write 'sudo apt install testdisk' in the terminal?

yeah that will download the recovery and cloning utility

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5 minutes ago, mahyar said:

yeah that will download the recovery and cloning utility

done

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2 minutes ago, HardStroke said:

done

type blkid then isblk in terminal then paste results here

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10 minutes ago, mahyar said:

type blkid then isblk in terminal then paste results here

I typed sudo apt install testdisk and i get

Unable to locate package testdisk

Im using the bootable usb stick that i made

Does linux has to be installed as an entire os for me to do it?

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1 minute ago, HardStroke said:

I typed sudo apt install testdisk and i get

Unable to locate package testdisk

Im using the bootable usb stick that i made

Does linux has to be installed as an entire os for me to do it?

no!

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do a sudo apt update then try again

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1 minute ago, mahyar said:

no!

Idk why im getting this error

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1 minute ago, mahyar said:

do a sudo apt update then try again

Already Tried it 3 times and its still not working

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Just now, HardStroke said:

Idk why im getting this error

probably because repto data is outdated  do this:

 

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

do a sudo apt update then try again

 

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1 minute ago, mahyar said:

probably because repto data is outdated  do this:

 

 

maybe if ill try reinstalling linux to the usb it will fix the problem?

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Just now, HardStroke said:

maybe if ill try reinstalling linux to the usb it will fix the problem?

do not bother with that

https://gparted.org/livecd.php

this live distro is specialized for data recovery thus it should have all software needed 

doing that on a live ubuntu is more painful than using that

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2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

do not bother with that

https://gparted.org/livecd.php

this live distro is specialized for data recovery thus it should have all software needed 

doing that on a live ubuntu is more painful than using that

so do i just burn it to the usb instead on linux?

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Just now, HardStroke said:

so do i just burn it to the usb instead on linux?

well there is a thing with live linux 

it can have problems installing software 

i had good luck with this specialized distro 

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2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

well there is a thing with live linux 

it can have problems installing software 

i had good luck with this specialized distro 

ok ill burn it to the usb and try with it

 

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9 minutes ago, mahyar said:

well there is a thing with live linux 

it can have problems installing software 

i had good luck with this specialized distro 

so should i try installing it on linux on the usb drive?

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1 minute ago, HardStroke said:

so should i try installing it on linux on the usb drive?

no 

its painful process

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6 minutes ago, mahyar said:

no 

its painful process

ok i just burned it to the usb without linux

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so boot to it!

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2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

so boot to it!

ive just done that

its booting now to gparted live with the default settings

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