after loosing everything I got materially a few years ago, I've now finally also lost everything I had in digital form
basically everything I've ever done on a computer..
all my backups, all my documents, all my pictures, all my videos, all my digital books and offline game backups (which is probably the least bad)..
I had treated myself by buying a new hard drive.
An internal 1TB SSD + SATA to USB enclosure
I never had so much storage space, but I wanted to finally treat myself to a decent hard drive to collect and sort everything that has come together over the years.
and 1TB for ~60€ is really okay nowadays..
it all worked great, it was a very lovely little data space where I had soooooo much now (collected over the years) all at one place and even offline - it was like perfect..
especially cuz I have no wifi since months now..
sadly this seems to be all gone now.. :(
I was at my best friend's house (not so often these days) and had my laptop and external usb drive with me
and wanted to show him some stuff and especially a video
so I decided to plug my external SSD into his reeeally old windows computer (I think windows 7) which said something about successful driver installation at the bottom right but did not show the drive to open it..
I wondered and pulled the drive out again, wanted to connect it with my laptop again but since this very moment I have no access to any of my data anymore :(
just only 3 minutes before everything worked perfectly, I even put a lot of data from my laptop to the drive (all my art.. and pictures)
on my linux laptop (POP OS!) the drive is at least being shown, but linux can't mount the drive..
-_-
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
so has windows in that short moment fucked my whole drive?
really?
does 'system-managed device' mean that linux think it is a windows root system or what?
just because I'be plugged the drive into the windows machine of a friend to play a video?!
FUCKOFF
msdos??
I'm pretty sure I've formatted the drive as exfat at the beginning
cuz it should be an external drive and ntfs is mainly for internal
fat32 can only hold up to 4gb files
and exfat seemed like the best option.. but I'm also not 100% sure anymore
but I surely know it was NO MSDOS wtf
or does that msdos mean exFAT?!
is that PTTYPE supposed to be there?
so wtf yeah, this seems like a wrong fs (filesystem) type
probably also everything else..
bad option
bad superblock
missing codepage
missing helper program
and other error
can someone help me please?
I'm not even sure how to rescue my data now..
I think I need a whole new 1TB SSD to make an image and another to try to rescue some data?
but even then, I probably wont be able to do it.. even with internet I cant even sudo apt install anything nor update..
my system is too outdated and I only get 404 errors and wrong sources
I once updated my pop and this broke everything, while it worked flawlessly just before the upgrade..
also I do not have wifi for weeks, so I can't even update.. no internet
and my main focus was a system which JUST WORKS, is stable - not always has the latest update
I now need to risk everything even my working system and data on my laptop to update to then be able to install some programs to try to rescue my data?
or is a live usb stick maybe enough to try to rescue data of that 1TB drive?
why does fsck nothing?
how do I find out the right format?
could fstab help me?
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=129169
dmesg:
[ 219.689463] exFAT-fs (sda): Invalid boot checksum (boot checksum : 0x1b8ba269, checksum : 0xdf8ba276)
[ 219.689466] exFAT-fs (sda): invalid boot region
[ 219.689467] exFAT-fs (sda): failed to recognize exfat type
[ 683.265305] FAT-fs (sda): bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 683.265308] FAT-fs (sda): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
[ 702.176650] exFAT-fs (sda): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 702.179627] exFAT-fs (sda): Invalid boot checksum (boot checksum : 0x1b8ba269, checksum : 0xdf8ba276)
[ 702.179630] exFAT-fs (sda): invalid boot region
[ 702.179631] exFAT-fs (sda): failed to recognize exfat type
[ 714.502479] sda:
[ 969.883045] exFAT-fs (sda): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 969.886070] exFAT-fs (sda): Invalid boot checksum (boot checksum : 0x1b8ba269, checksum : 0xdf8ba276)
[ 969.886073] exFAT-fs (sda): invalid boot region
[ 969.886074] exFAT-fs (sda): failed to recognize exfat type
[ 1378.363554] /dev/sda1: Can't open blockdev
[ 1486.212370] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 1486.260394] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 1486.260475] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 1497.784509] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 1497.805611] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=1561, bcdDevice= 2.04
[ 1497.805625] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1497.805631] usb 2-1: Product: SABRENT
[ 1497.805635] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: SABRENT
[ 1497.805639] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: DB9876543214E
[ 1497.810014] scsi host5: uas
[ 1497.810966] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SABRENT 0204 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 1497.812313] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1498.310162] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[ 1498.310172] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 1498.310357] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1498.310363] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 53 00 00 08
[ 1498.310695] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1498.311014] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (4096 bytes)
[ 1498.313553] sda:
[ 1498.314787] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1512.659157] exFAT-fs (sda): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 1512.662150] exFAT-fs (sda): Invalid boot checksum (boot checksum : 0x1b8ba269, checksum : 0xdf8ba276)
[ 1512.662153] exFAT-fs (sda): invalid boot region
[ 1512.662154] exFAT-fs (sda): failed to recognize exfat type
[ 1542.293015] exFAT-fs (sda): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 1542.296300] exFAT-fs (sda): Invalid boot checksum (boot checksum : 0x1b8ba269, checksum : 0xdf8ba276)
[ 1542.296303] exFAT-fs (sda): invalid boot region
[ 1542.296304] exFAT-fs (sda): failed to recognize exfat type
how can I repair?
no options are being displayed..
I could cry.
I just wanted some quality fun time with an old friend and now I couldnt enjoy it at all.
Instead I get a mess which I will probably not be able to sort out, even in months..
I couldnt even imagine evil windows destroying the whole access in just seconds..
But I also hope the data is still good, only the access is fucked..
okay so just stop trying to make it work/ mount
accept the situation
and focus on rescue/ recovering?
can someone please direct me to a good recovery/rescue guide?
or know any tips/ idea?
