Despite saying I wouldn’t, here I am wasting an afternoon of leave attempting yet again to recover a rogue external hard drive for my brother-in-law.

I’ve created a pendrive instance of Slax Linux on a USB stick, plugged into an ancient laptop he’s borrowed from a friend. After much tinkering, I’ve finally identified the drive in GParted.

But that doesn’t help much, as the drive cannot be mounted here. So back to Windows to run chkdsk /f and hope NTFS can somehow be repaired. Easier said than done: this is a Turkish version of Windows 7, so every menu is nearly indecipherable.

May it be expiation for my sins.

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