My ubuntu partition got corrupted for some reason, so I created another partition and reinstalled ubuntu there. Now I'm trying to recover data from my old partition(I don't need it all, only few git repos). I tried testdisk, but it shows "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged". Photorec recovered some files, but it's kinda hard to put everything together(for some reason Photorec puts files from same directory to different directories), so I want to try to manually recover folder structure only as last resort. Is there any other ways I can try to recover data(ideally only data from specific folder)?
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If you can still login then open a terminal and type sudo gparted
If you cannot, which is more likely, make a bootable USB with gparted.
It has an attempt data recovery under the Device menu.
This is a very slow process. Backup whatever you can first. You probably only have a 5% chance of recovery I am afraid.
