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[LUG]Re: Ubuntu 18.04 disk write only - Data recovery

 

Hi Philip,

On Tue, 2023-05-09 at 14:54 +0100, Philip Whateley via list wrote:
> My wife has been running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo laptop.
>  
> Unfortunately she had an accident this morning and fell, catching her
> ankle in the power lead and pulling the laptop onto the floor.

Ouch, I hope that she's alright.

> I assume that there is some corruption of the HD as the entire disk is
> now write protected, and won’t even mount an external USB device for
> us to pull off those files which are not yet backed up.
>  
> [...]
>  
> Any advice please?

Are you able to launch a LiveUSB with another Linux? This way you might
be able to mount a second USB to copy over data from the hard drive.

Regards,


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