Is there a way to recover data from failed SSD?

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I did a fresh install of opensuse 15.6. Then I copied etc, var to root with no trouble. When It came to home folder, there was 112 GB to copy; the process took a while until it failed at the last 12GB. The data drive disappeared from dolphin superuser.

The message I saw in dolphin was that the drive structure was corrupted - or something to that effect. Then I found the data drive could no longer be mounted. I changed slots in the USB to no avail. When I attempted to restart, 15.6 ended up in emergency mode. I had no choice but to do another fresh reinstall. The problem now is all my files are trapped.

I am willing to start over, but I need my personal files. What utilities are there in 15.6 to recover them? Thanks in advance.

Randolph

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Do not you have the source you were copying from?

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I did read your story 3 times but not I understand what is going on and that is not a good sign, did you maybe copy something over something else?

Can you share the output of “inxi -dpo” and indicate what in this output is the “failed SSD”?

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I’m using windows right now. I will get a screen capture of the problem some time today. I did not have the presence of mind to use more than one back up source; I only have the one data ssd as backup on a usb drive. I cannot mount this ssd through the usb drive at present. I checked the drive in windows which claims it is a “healthy partition.” The usb drive does work because I’m using it to back up windows.

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Dolphin say the “Structure needs cleaning.” Please tell me what the utilities are for cleaning:

failedssd_structureneedscleaning
failedssd_structureneedscleaning1154Ă—854 92 KB

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My concern is with Gigastone SSD:

randolph@localhost:~> inxi -dpo
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.27 TiB used: 15.89 GiB (0.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
size: 953.87 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc model: General USB Flash Disk size: 57.62 GiB type: USB
ID-4: /dev/sde vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
size: 238.47 GiB type: USB
ID-5: /dev/sdf vendor: Gigastone model: SSD size: 238.47 GiB type: USB
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ASUS model: DRW-24B1ST c dev-links: cdrom,dvd
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
Optical-2: /dev/sr1 vendor: ASUS model: DRW-1814BLT dev-links: N/A
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /.snapshots size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.9 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /boot/grub2/i386-pc size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-5: /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-6: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-7: /opt size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-8: /root size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-9: /run/media/randolph/9E69-D787 size: 57.59 GiB used: 9.16 GiB (15.9%)
fs: exfat dev: /dev/sdc1
ID-10: /srv size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-11: /tmp size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-12: /usr/local size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-13: /var size: 1.82 TiB used: 6.72 GiB (0.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
ID-14: swap-1 size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdb1 size: 953.24 GiB fs: ntfs
ID-2: /dev/sdb2 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat
ID-3: /dev/sdb3 size: 544 MiB fs: ntfs
ID-4: /dev/sde1 size: 238.47 GiB fs: ntfs
ID-5: /dev/sdf1 size: 238.47 GiB fs: xfs

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Okay, good you posted the output of “inxi”. Your Gigastone SSD is /dev/sdf. On it is a xfs parttion /dev/sdf1.

The first link searching “xfs repair” gives me:

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All my personal files are recovered! I had to use -L in the command, but my files are intact! :joy: Thanks again!

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