Laptop lost power during partition resize. Won’t boot and files unaccessable

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I was resizing the partition (enlarging) with gparted when about 2 minutes in there was a power cut. Now it won’t boot up and the filesystem is unaccessable.

I can see the partition in gparted but on attempting to do anything it gets stuck on “checking file system”.

“Disks” doesn’t even recognise the file system - it just shows free space where the file system should be.

When I click on the “173GB volume” in the launcher, it says “…structure needs cleaning”.

I’d appreciate if anyone can advise me how to get my data back. Please bear in mind I don’t have any USB drive large enough for copying the contents on the hard drive.

Check this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery testdisk can help you — Katu, Dec 19 '17 at 08:56
Have you tried to check the filesystem on /dev/sda6 manually ? sudo fsck /dev/sda1 in a terminal. — Soren A, Dec 19 '17 at 08:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 19 '17 at 09:36

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test disk is a powerful free data recovery tool that you can use to correct partition table and fix or recover data on disks.

answered Dec 19 '17 at 09:36

Ghasem Pahlavan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '17 at 10:50

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I'm not sure in this case but you could try using fsck to check your filesystem consistency and try to fix it.

answered Dec 19 '17 at 10:50

Tom Bailey

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '17 at 18:54

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"test disk" worked on a deep search.

Also needed to use the info here to boot up:

https://askubuntu.com/a/495993/773145

answered Dec 19 '17 at 18:54

lornt78

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Laptop lost power during partition resize. Won’t boot and files unaccessable

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