I have a drive in a laptop that was working fine, then all of a sudden stopped. Chkdsk is reporting “unrecoverable errors” and not even linux can manage to mount or see any filesystem structure. Is there a way to repair the filesystem so we can slave the drive and pull information off?
Edit: Drive is a Seagate and using their diagnostic utilities reports that SMART has not been tripped and the drive is physically fine.
Answer
I’d try booting with Rescue Is Possible Linux and running Testdisk to see if that can recover any partition data (or files, since there is an advanced function to pull individual data files; you will want to have a USB disk to mount and save files to or a working network connection to activate with RIP in order to try that if you’re lucky enough that RIP can see the damaged drive, though).
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Source : Link , Question Author : Terry , Answer Author : Bart Silverstrim
