Can not show external HDD during photorec

Question

I have just formated my HP laptop (having 500 GB Hard Disk Internal) and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS OS. while get back up for lost files, I install testdisk and run sudo photorec. All process is going fine, but I want to save the resotred documents, photos , videos etc in my 1 TB External Seagate HDD (SATA) . But there is no option for my External HDD in photorec window. How can I do so.

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Do I understand you correctly that you want to recover files from the internal drive you just installed Ubuntu on? Or do you mean a third drive not mentioned in your question? — s3lph, Jul 05 '15 at 14:58
Btw. what's the HP icon in your panel? Just asking out of interest, unrelated to your problem? — s3lph, Jul 05 '15 at 15:00
@the_Seppi HP Linux Imaging and Printing sudo apt-get install hplip-gui — A.B., Jul 05 '15 at 15:01

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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The USB drive probably was mounted in /media/bapi/<name_of_drive. We can browse to the root directory (/) with selecting .. twice then select media, bapi, <name>.

If it is not present there try mounting from Nautilus to be able to write on that drive.

For a guide to access and recover files on a system drive from an Ubuntu live session see

How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jul 05 '15 at 15:47

Takkat

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still the problem is same. – Bapi Saha Jul 06 '15 at 16:02
@BapiSaha: also see link I gave in the edit. Can you "see" your external drive from Nautilus (aka "Files")? – Takkat Jul 06 '15 at 16:06

Can not show external HDD during photorec

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