The disk contains an unclean file system

[Radecki000]

Hello...

First off, thank you for the effort in creating these tools and the fantastic instructions.

I am trying to recover files from a 3TB USB3 My Book.... The drive just stopped working at some point and not even displaying a drive, using a different enclosure showed the drive in windows but as uninitialized with no partitions.

I used an Ubuntu install inside a VM and the process was going well until I got to mounting the partitions. The first partition was very small and refused to mount so I ignored it, second partition was the big partition and upon mounting I got a message...

"The disk contains and unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing."

Once completed it actually mounted, and I could see the folders in the root of the drive and i was able to copy some of the files but many files were not accessible and the information could not be read on some of the folders.

Does this mean the enclosure damaged data on the disk or is it possibly something about the process I might have to tweak? Is it possible that running data recovery software would be able to find and recover the files i can not read and would you have any suggestions?

Again, thank you for all the efforts and I hope you can help me out with some suggestions.

[themaddoctor]

If the decryption had failed, you would not have recovered anything. So it looks like you will have to do some data recovery on the decrypted disk. Try making a decrypted image of the disk with ddrescue or whatever tool you prefer.

Good luck.

[themaddoctor]

*so you can work on the image with whatever OS and software you choose.

[Radecki000]

ok... thank you... will try and report here on success or failure.