I got an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of recovering some of the files from my old laptops hard drive. The hard drive and all of it’s partitions show up in both disks and gparted but it wont mount. When I tried to mount it manually, it gave the error message stating that it can’t read the superblock. I’ve never had to deal with this issue before, so the only things I’ve tried so far were fsck and the data recovery option in GParted, and neither of them helped.
I tried searching about it online but all of the solutions I found online either didn’t work or required methods that are currently not possible for me. The hard drive had Ubuntu (22.04 if I remember correctly) installed on it and I just need access to the files in the sdd3 partition, which was formatted in ext4.
I don’t know how to do any of that first part. All of the data on the drive is replaceable, it’s just going to be very tedious and time consuming. I’m currently trying one other method and I think after I’m done with that, that I’m just going to skip trying to recover the data. I had some other plans for what I wanted to do with this device and I think trying to recover the data isn’t worth it at this point.