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I was fiddling around with Ubuntu. After restart, the boot menu disappeared. So I tried installing Ubuntu from a live USB.
This is what I get:
I actually had 3 partitions in windows - C, D & F which are now collapsed into one. So I tried "Try Ubuntu before installing" and started Ubuntu. To access the file system, I tried sudo fdisk -l
which shows that I have a 1TB volume on /dev/sdb
:
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
So, I tried to mount it using sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb
. It shows the following output:
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
NTFS signature is missing.
Trying the alternate boot sector
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
What do I do now to recover my files? Is the data still present in the disk? How do I recover it?
Update – I ran gparted
, this is what I get:
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Update 2 - I used TestDisk
and obtained the following . But the size of My HDD is only 1TB what am I supposed to do next?
Cross-posted to: https://askubuntu.com/q/914000/271
– Andrea Lazzarotto – 2017-05-12T00:14:13.407