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What would be the best way for me to recover data from my old laptop's hard drive, which seems to have a bad superblock?

I got an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of recovering some of the files from my old laptops hard drive. The hard drive and all of it’s partitions show up in both disks and gparted but it wont mount. When I tried to mount it manually, it gave the error message stating that it can’t read the superblock. I’ve...

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That has changed over the last few years - I’d prefer a proper usb3 to sata bridge over a shitty sata controller - and the quality of integrated sata controllers isn’t that great nowadays.

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After reading about it - true. Disadvantage of doing this stuff for a long time - you miss new developments. Only reason I’m aware of testdisk is that I lost the sources of my own superblock search tool, my old binaries broke with a newer glibc, and before reimplementing it I checked if sombody else had done that in a more usable form in the meantime.

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