I know there are others subjects related but I assure you I went through a lot without finding an answer. It might well be because of my awfully basic knowledge in the domain.
Context:
I had an old ASUS G550J Republic of Gamers that broke down some years ago and I now want to get back my data (musics and images mainly).
What I did for now:
When I connected the hard drive I extracted, using an appropriate adapter, on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, GNOME Version => 3.36.2 there was a signal that the drive was acknowledged but no way to access it as a noob like me would have like to.
As I know my way (a little) on CommandLines I tried to access it this way. And after some research understood that the way here was to mount one of my HD partition to potentially access the data on it.
I installed drivers for nfts and exfat and tried to mount a partition.
My unsatisfying results:
Command: sudo fdisk -l
Output :
[...]
Disk /dev/sdb: 931,53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 244190646 sectors
Disk model: 014-1EJ164
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x50ef685f
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 718847 716800 2,8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 718848 1951678440 1950959593 7,3T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 1951678464 1953521663 1843200 7G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
This is my hard drive, and I tried to mount /dev/sdb2.
sudo mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/sdb2 /media/usb
mount: /media/usb: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdb2 /media/usb
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb2 /media/exfat
FUSE exfat 1.3.0
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.
I know it would be better to know the fs to reduce the possibilities here but I do not know how to do that.
Does anyone can tell me:
- If what I want to do is possible,
- Where I am missing a step or some important information I am unable to understand ?
Thanks a lot in advance, I hope I was clear in my explanations.
Benoit
