While using GParted live usb to create some free space on my disk (only ubuntu 22.04 is installed on that entire disk), I mistakely stopped the resizing operation in between, and later when I tried to reboot (After removing the usb) into ubuntu, I could not boot and got error (which I didn't take picture of but it asked me to run fsck manually on /dev/sda3 my main storage partition in ubuntu). After running fsck once and pressing yes everytime, it took around >2 hrs for fsck to complete, but still it showed some errors (something like file system still has errors)-
The image of error it gave
Basically it was asking to run fsck again, I so I ran fsck again on /dev/sda3 but this time as-
fsck -y /dev/sda3
Image of running the above command
It completed in ~30 seconds only, and it showed
"FILE SYSTEM IS MODIFIED"-
After running the fsck command second time
Then when I gave the command "reboot", again some errors popped (see image 3), something saying "Freezing execution":
I still can't boot into my ubuntu...
After all this, what I did- I made a live usb of ubuntu 22.04 and tried to run it in "try without installing" mode and from there copy my files (from unbootable ubuntu) into a external seagate hard drive.
Now.... I can't see some of my important files (which were there in my downloads folder in my now unbootable ubuntu)
How can I recover such files.. is there a way?
...After some wait and frustration and hurry..
I copied whatever I could get from the non-bootable ubuntu to a big external storage drive(using a live USB). And then I lost hope on getting them back) and tried to do a fresh install of ubuntu 22.04 my damaged harddrive. The process of ubuntu installation ran for ~5 minutes, then throwed error, " [error 5] input/output error ...... blah blah blah ...maybe Faulty hard drive".error picture here My question is now will I not even be able to do a fresh install of ubuntu/ any other os ??
