[ubuntu-in] External USB hard disk not recognised after a power failure during operation

Jkhatri khatri.jatin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 07:35:17 BST 2010


On Tuesday 01 June 2010 11:57 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote:
> If Ubuntu is unable to detect it then something seriously bad should 
> have happened. I too have a Portable HD that went kaput in a similar 
> fashion in Windows and I have been unable to recover the data from it.
>
> Though i have no solution to this issue i would be keenly watching 
> this to see how it pans out.
> Just an after thought. Would it be possible to recover data using some 
> data recovery software on SystemRescueCD.


if your hdd is recognized by the system ( Linux ) ... you can use " 
testdisk " see[1] to recover the data

[1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

hope this helps

Regards


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