On 5/1/25 8:12 PM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome)
Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a
USB 3 stick.
The upgrade failed.
A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use. Until I could get the
Fedora workstation adequately restored, I needed to get a few things off
the F-40 back-up onto the windows-10 box.
Attempts to re-install Fedora from Fedora-42 Live Workstation appear to
have completely destroyed the partitioning of the hard drive.
When I inserted the back-up stick into the port, windows-10 told me to
use defender to scan the stick. I did so. I asked for a scan only. I
did not want defender to attempt any repair or other changes. Defender
reported no problems.
But now when I insert the back-up stick into a port on either tower,
it's claimed the back-up stick is un-formatted and empty. Fedora's
"disks" and windows-10 (file browser and defender) agree.
I do not recall which file system the back-up stick was formatted with
beforehand.
How can I recover the back-up (without cost)?
Note that I'm needing to recover the back-up as a whole, not just a file
or 2 from a back-up.
How did you do the backup?
Windows doesn't like any Linux filesystems and will consider the drive
corrupted or unformatted. But it doesn't usually overwrite it unless
you say so.
You can try running "gpart" on it. That will try to discover the
partitions.
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