2 TB external HD does not mount any more. How to save it's data?

[Paul B]

If it's external but gparted sees it, I would take it out of the enclosure
and cable it directly.  Could just be the usb portion that is screwed up.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:30 AM, CWSIV JUNO <trinity1204user at juno.com>
wrote:
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>  On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 19:15 +0100, Bas G. Roufs wrote:
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>  GParted does see the drive - it mentions 'input-output errors'.
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> When clicking at 'skip' or 'cancel', it mentions an 'unallocated space'.
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> Have you considered the partition table itself may be bad??  There are
> partition recovery tooks like testdisk which look directly at the drive
> bypassing the partition table to see what is there??
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> If you rebuild the partition table with gparted you can loose the data.
>
> CWSIV
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