I want to test the Testdisk Tool as many of my friends said using it they managed to recover their hard disks by 100%, 90%, or 80% or so. My data inside were Kubuntu operating system and thousands of files (yes, I installed OS not within HDD but simply USB flash drive).

I deliberately sacrificed my 'hard disk' (a 32GB EXT2 USB flash disk drive actually) by doing resizing and experienced fatal failure. This appears similar to the issue described here, which does not appear to have been answered fully.Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates. I can only navigate up the tree to the root of the drive. However, when I try to locate the 2TB drive as a destination, I can't find it. I can navigate to the relevant partition on the 120G and choose image to create an image.dd of the partition. These are: the 120G SSD I want to retrieve from, the live usb, a 250G drive and a 2TB portable drive. When I start testdisk it shows all the avilable drives. I'm booting from a 16.04 persistent Liveusb. mozilla which is one of a number of hidden folders which have been overwritten. Specifically I'm trying to recover the contents of.

The drive is a 120G SSD, which has a number of smaller partitions. More detailed version: I've been using testdisk to try to recover data from a drive which has Ubuntu 16.04.3 partially installed. I've RTFM and searched a lot but no joy on an answer. The question mirrors this one from another forum. When I navigate to the partition I want and create image.dd, the only options to copy it are on the 120G drive.

When I start testdisk I can see various drives. Shorter version: I've been using testdisk to recover data from a 120G drive with a number of partitions.

Testdisk copy files to another drive