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I have a hard disk from a windows 8 machine that I am trying to recover some documents from.

I plugged the drive into my ubuntu laptop and could easily access the files on the windows partition (there are several recovery partitions as well), after leaving the machine for a few moments once I returned to it I can no longer access the windows partition, it appears no longer to be mounted and wont mount/cannot be accessed on another ubuntu machine.

When I open 'disks' and select the 1 TB volume I am trying to access 'disks' hangs. Ubuntu doesn't spit out any errors when trying to open the windows partition it just does nothing.

Any ideas?

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  • Try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery – Katu May 30 '16 at 14:33
  • Assuming you can repeat the behaviour (the unresponsive Windows partition), can you please include the output of sudo dmesg, cat /proc/mounts, and sudo fdisk -l? – David Foerster May 31 '16 at 18:50
  • @MarkKirby: Why would that problem occur suddenly after leaving the mounted drive and file system unattended for a while? It's not like Microsoft can secretly place a hibernation file onto the drive during OP's absence. – David Foerster May 31 '16 at 18:52
  • @DavidFoerster You have a good point, I seem to have been a bit quick to close this one, I actually think I will retract my vote, well spotted. – Mark Kirby May 31 '16 at 18:58
  • Actually, replace fdisk -l with parted -l (unless the drive has an MBR partition table). – David Foerster May 31 '16 at 19:23

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