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Re: issues with storage media

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Parted / gparted are useful tools. The live .iso is very useful if you have
an unknown disk - you can boot into linux to examine disk formats. The
crucial thing to know is that most partitions can be recovered with enough
care.

USB keys - try and buy a known brand. Stick small labels on them. Know what
you use them for. They will still fail sometimes - don't rely on them for
longest term storage. Back up files you want to other media as well/

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 5:59 PM Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi I ran into the following problems a few times.
> As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19,
> (recently 20).
>
> Question 1 An external hard disk that I use (which is I think possibly
> failing) was formatted in NTFS. While I was working on a machine at the
> university where I used to work, all files disappeared, and reappeared and
> the format of the disk was changed to FAT or something like that. I have no
> idea why and how this happened. Does anyone have any clues
>
> Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times
> when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs
> type blaah blaah error. This was a usb that I used and stored files to
> working under linux, and I do not remember the exact format on the disk. I
> tried various programs to recover the files, and in some cases I was able
> to recover some in other cases I was not able to. Sometimes I was able to
> format the usb to be able to use it again, a few times I was unable to.
> What methods are available to recover data, and what to do when something
> like this happens.
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>

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issues with storage media Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2020-07-25 20:00 +0200
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