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I've been trying to recover files with Testdisk and lately, it stopped working. on the outcome, it shows "Copy done! 0 ok, 0 failed" how do I fix it? enter image description here

ice rhymes raven
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  • See http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step – heynnema Mar 28 '19 at 21:42
  • I've been using it before for a very long time and it was working fine. it's not really about the steps I take – ice rhymes raven Apr 01 '19 at 11:11
  • It may be because the filename that you highlight has ", " in it. – heynnema Apr 01 '19 at 11:55
  • it's not, I just tried it now with a different file. – ice rhymes raven Apr 01 '19 at 12:05
  • You're selecting the desired file with ":", yes? What destination directory is it trying to write to? – heynnema Apr 01 '19 at 12:14
  • yes, I tried copying the files to any file inside Desktop, Documents and Pictures. i still got the same results – ice rhymes raven Apr 01 '19 at 12:21
  • Are those destinations r/w or r/o? I assume that you're booted to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB, yes? And you're selecting files with ":"? What if you select a destination like a flash key? – heynnema Apr 01 '19 at 12:22
  • The destination is "Home/user/Desktop/Folder... I always used this method or similar. – ice rhymes raven Apr 01 '19 at 12:52
  • Yes, but you don't want to write to a disk/destination that's on the disk that you're trying to recover from. You risk overwriting the deleted file that you're trying to recover. If the drive has errors, it's probably in r/o mode. Have you run fsck on the Ubuntu partition? Does the copy work when the destination is a flash key, or some other writable device? – heynnema Apr 01 '19 at 13:02
  • oh thank. it works when i recover from driver flash drive. but does not work the other way around – ice rhymes raven Apr 01 '19 at 14:27

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From the comments...

The user was having trouble copying deleted files, because the hard disk was being mounted as read only, either due to file system errors, or other mount command. User was trying to write to the source disk using testdisk.

To check for file system errors...

For 17.10 or older...

  • boot to the GRUB menu
  • choose Advanced Options
  • choose Recovery mode
  • choose Root access
  • at the # prompt, type sudo fsck -f /
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

For 18.04 or newer...

  • boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB
  • open a terminal window
  • type sudo fdisk -l
  • identify the /dev/XXXX device name for your "Linux Filesystem"
  • type sudo fsck -f /dev/XXXX # replacing XXXX with the number you found earlier
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

To recover deleted files using testdisk, do NOT write the files to the same disk as the source disk. Select a different destination, like an external USB HDD or flash drive.

heynnema
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