<p dir="ltr">On Feb 14, 2015 2:57 PM, "Richard S. Crawford" <<a href="mailto:richard@underpope.com">richard@underpope.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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?<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Depends on how it's failing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- Ryan</p>