I got an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of recovering some of the files from my old laptops hard drive. The hard drive and all of it’s partitions show up in both disks and gparted but it wont mount. When I tried to mount it manually, it gave the error message stating that it can’t read the superblock. I’ve never had to deal with this issue before, so the only things I’ve tried so far were fsck and the data recovery option in GParted, and neither of them helped.

I tried searching about it online but all of the solutions I found online either didn’t work or required methods that are currently not possible for me. The hard drive had Ubuntu (22.04 if I remember correctly) installed on it and I just need access to the files in the sdd3 partition, which was formatted in ext4.

  • vortexalOP
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    6 months ago

    I know you wont understand where I’m coming from so I wont bother explaining it. If I need another storage device than I’ll just have to wait until next year to get another storage device.

    Edit: I don’t understand why I’m getting downvoted but it proves to me that I made the right choice in not explaining my situation.

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      6 months ago

      In that case I’d recommend waiting until next year before attempting recovery.

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      6 months ago

      The target storage device for the image can be over the network if that’s an option for you.

      I admit the downvote is weird.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think I can use that mostly because my internet package has a data cap and I don’t want to risk exceeding that.

        Also, I know it’s not really the time or place for this type of discussion but I’ve noticed recently (within the last few months) that for some reason the Lemmy community has changed. I don’t know if anyone else feels that way but it sometimes seems like some users are unnecessarily hostile/judgemental towards me. I wont say anything more because once again, this is not the time or the place but Lemmy wasn’t like this when I first started using it over two years ago.