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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

Don't beat up on yourself. It's a lesson learned the hard way. When you are back in business with a working drive, if you wish help in...

I did install timeshift but I stupidly the backup also was on the same HDD, as I've never thought things will go wrong with the entire disk

G'day @linux newbie 2024 and welcome to linux.org I have watched the video and I cannot see anything there that could have caused this...

I had a good experience with them before but in changing my screen and hygiene but not so technical issue like that. I hope they're at...

I'll consider switching to Linux Mint as I can see it's so popular too. Just after I got everything ok. But I do have a question...

Keep an open mind....the latest Ubuntu does have problems.....weird things are possible. Good luck.

I've never used any other flavour of Linux so far. But I guess I'll give it a try. Not sure, but I think that drive is about four years now.

No, I'll see what I can do today in the repair centre. Hopefully it can be saved.

I concur with @blunix you need to find a local professional data recovery service and have them grab your data, not much else I can...

Yes, also the ubuntu installation can see it in the manual partitioning option. But I cannot proceed any further from there!

No worries. I'll take it to the repair center today and see what can be done. As I'm not an expert, I'll discuss this idea of swaping...

Same result! Here's the output: sudo smartctl --attributes --log=selftest /dev/sda smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530...

I've already installed smatmontools and when I added sudo , it gives me : Smartctl open device: /dev/sda failed: INQUIRY failed.

Hi, Thanks for replying. I'm now on the USB stick this is the output for sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/loop0: 1.63 GiB, 1748217856 bytes...