Starting the Terminal Click image to enlargeĥ. Move the cursor to the upper left corner, click the Find button, enter Ter, and run the Terminal program. Locate the external disk and double-click it to mount.Ĥ. Unlocking the encrypted disks Click image to enlarge Unlock them by clicking and entering the password. Encrypted and external disks in Ubuntu Click image to enlarge Ubuntu startup screen Click image to enlargeģ. Start the Ubuntu computer using the Ubuntu startup disk and select Try Ubuntu on the Install window. We'll use a 32GB SSD device as a startup disk.Ģ. Please, note, that although it's enough to have a 2GB USB stick to install Ubuntu, we'll need much more disk space to perform data recovery. The official Ubuntu site explains it in detail: Download Ubuntu Desktop and How to create a bootable USB stick on Windows. Download the Ubuntu 14.04 install image and create a USB startup disk. In addition to all native Linux file systems, such a drive can be formatted as an NTFS device.ĭata recovery process Creating an Ubuntu startup diskġ. It may be any disk visible to the Windows system, or an external hard drive connected to the Ubuntu computer. We also need a place to store recovered data. So, we need two computers connected to a network: a Windows machine with R-Studio Network installed and the affected Ubuntu computer. Windows systems cannot directly access encrypted Linux partitions, therefore we need to use data recovery over network. We also provide some information on how to work with Ubuntu for those who aren't very familiar with that OS. So, this article will show how to use R-Studio for Windows instead.
It's possible to use another Linux machine with installed R-Studio for Linux, but it may not be easily available. If not, what has to be done when the files become inaccessible? This will work only if the file system is intact. Then, the operating system on the computer can be repaired or re-installed. The first natural move is to create an Ubuntu startup disk, boot the computer, mount the file system, and copy the files to another disk.
Here comes the challenge: retrieve the user's files. The good news is though, the password isn't forgotten. There is bad news: the system was installed over an encrypted LVM file system. Looks like this is an easy case for data recovery? Not exactly. An Ubuntu 14.04 computer was in a system software updating process when it struck a power outage.
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