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I recently asked this question. You might read it to see what problems I'm experimenting, but it's not needed.

The thing is, I booted my computer from a live session of GParted, and I'm able to see both of my partitions, sda1, and sda2, which contain important data I'd like to save.

Since I can see this data from the live session, I connected another USB to my laptop, I mounted this USB, and passed around 5Gb of this important data to the newly inserted USB. I thought that this would save the data, and that then I would be able to wipe the disk and reinstall Ubuntu, but sadly, when I insert the USB with the important data to my Windows computer, I'm not able to open the data, I see the following picture.

I think that this is because of using different file systems, but I'm not sure, since this problem doesn't happen when using a normal Ubuntu instead of a live session of GParted.

When I try to manipulate the data from the live session, I can do it without any problems.

The problem here is that I can't wipe the disk if I don't know if the data copied to the USB will be accessible from the new Ubuntu, and I don't have any other Ubuntu machine to check if the data is correctly accessible.

Is my assumption right? Will I be able to see and use the files in the USB if I wipe the disk and install Ubuntu from zero? What other method can I use to save these files?

Please note that I can't open a live session of Ubuntu, only one of GParted.

Maximiliano Redigonda
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  • What kind of filesystem is on the USB? It might not be compatible with Windows. Try formatting the USB in windows before copying the files in gparted. – jpezz Jan 16 '18 at 23:12

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your problem is that gparted doesn't copy files, it copies partitons -- raw data sector by sector.

Thus if you are going to copy data from an ext partition and paste it into an ntfs partition, you will end up with a bunch or garbage since the two file systems are radically different.

You need to copy to idendical file systems or use cloning software, such as clonezilla.

ravery
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