[vox] Recovering data

[Ryan Northrup]

On Feb 14, 2015 2:57 PM, "Richard S. Crawford" <richard at underpope.com>
wrote:
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> I have a 2-TB external ext4-formatted USB hard drive which holds all my
media files and which appears to be failing -- it no longer mounts to my
Kubuntu computer. Assuming that the USB connection is fine, what's the best
and cheapest way to go about recovering the data on there?
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Depends on how it's failing.

If you can still access the drive via USB (i.e. it's showing up as /dev/sdX
or something similar), and it's just not showing a valid filesystem (maybe
the partition table is corrupt?), there are tools like PhotoRec that can
recover files in such circumstances.

-- Ryan
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