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I have tried testdisk to recover my lost data from my external disk. I've tried that and get the below message from terminal

Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 1 * HPFS - NTFS              0   1  1 121600 254 63 1953520002

Boot sector
Status: OK

Backup boot sector
Status: OK

Sectors are identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.

What do I need to do next? I tried to install Ubuntu with a partition on the external drive on my laptop and when I went back to get my data the external didn't show anything.

Zanna
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Savvas Potamitis
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Try a more user-freindly usb or cd/dvd bootable linux, maybe Mint or Knoppix live. You should be able to to 'fdisk -l' for partitions less than 2TB to be sure what it shows up as. You may be able to use the gui filemanager to mount it, but command line mount will show you errors if they exist. Also, use Midnight Commander if you can, it'll be faster and easier to get your files if they are there. Command is just 'mc'. Use arrow keys and Enter to navigate. 'apt-get install mc' if it's not installed.

jdmayfield
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