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Hello to all, Good news, I recovered my main files and they are correct, nothing is missing. And much better I recovered all directory structure and files . In almost 400GB full of files is difficult o see if something is missing, but I even recovered the Firefox session. I followed all the recommen...

Hello, When trying to recover, with TestDisk , some critical files before try to fix the partition, I got: Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. So tomorrow I will try with PhotoRec , and if I succeed I will go with: 7.7 TestDisk: repairing ext2/3/4 filesystem superblock: https://www.cgse...

Charlie Brown wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:50 pm I would just run testdisk and find and restore the superblock backup(s) as above.

Thanks a lot Charlie, I will do it.
Regards
Joejac

Hello and thanks to all for your kind help, I do appreciate it. I was afraid to make more mistakes, so before following your expert advice I studied ddrescue and did the following, I made an image copy of the failed Crucial BX500 480GB, this time sdc, to the new SSD EMTEC X150 960GB that is sda, it ...

but dumpe2fs is a command that can print info about an ext[234] partition. I know from experience on BSD that this can show you exactly which type of file system it's found. This could potentially tell you if that partition is now ext2, ext4, or neither. Thanks DukeComposed and sorry I did not post...

Hello and thanks to all. I did: 1. I connected to the laptop a higher capacity SSD, an EMTEC X150 960GB and installed MX-23.1_x64 KDE on it, that now is sda 2. I connected the failed disk, my SSD Crucial BX500 480 GB, in a USB enclosure, this is now sdb 3. I Connected the failed Crucial to my USB 3 ...

Thanks @fehlix I will do it tomorrow, now is very late here.
But Gparted sees no file system on /dev/sda1
Regards

Hello to all. Last night I turned off my computer. This morning it did not boot. I have 2 partitions: / = sda2 for MX Linux and /home = sda1 for my data A. The error: BusyBox v1.30.1 (Debian 1:1.30.1-6+b3) built-in shell (ash) initramfs 1. In January I had this same problem and I fixed it doing this...

Thanks @SwampRabbit

Hello SwampRabbit Happy and Prosperous New Year! I have tried to install Waydroid that also requires Wayland in an MX-Linux 21 KDE that I have in a Virtualbox VM to test purposes, I do not want to risk my host which is also MX-21 KDE. I do not know if it is a problem with the VirtualBox environment ...