My hard disk broke and I am trying to recover all the data I can from the largest of three partitions, but indeed also repair the disk so I can put some less important information in it.
At the moment I have replaced the hard disk for another and I am trying to rescue the broken HDD from a case that lets me connect the disk via USB to my laptop, running Debian 10 buster, at /dev/sdb.
fdisk gives me Input/Output error, as does e2fsck.
Testdisk 7.0 is able to see all the data in the partition I am interested in recovering, and also sees all the partitions, as follows
Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 953869 64 32
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>D Linux 1 0 1 39771 63 32 81451008
D Linux 36723 0 1 953868 63 32 1878315008
D Linux Swap 39773 0 1 47878 63 32 16601088
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files, Enter: to continue
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 41 GB / 38 GiB
I am not able to recreate the partition table, the option "Logical" does not appear when using Left/Right arrows. I would like to set the first partition as Primary bootable, the second as Logical and the third is Swap, so I don't know.
Afterward, I plan to use e2fsck and repair it.
Edit: Partitions overlap! That's one big issue. How do I fix an overlapping partition if parted,fdisk, and fsck give Input/Output error?
