How to mount a damaged internal hard drive in an Ubuntu VM running on Windows 10?
The Issue
I had a Windows 10 PC whose hard drive went belly up. I'm trying to recover data from it by using an Ubuntu VM through VirtualBox on another Windows 10 PC.
What I've Done
So far, I have:
- Installed the damaged hard drive in another PC via a SATA connection.
- Created an Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox.
- Failed to figure out how to mount the damaged hard drive in Ubuntu.
When I go to Disk Management on the host, it shows the damaged disk as uninitialized (screenshot below):
My understanding is that normally to get a drive to display in an Ubuntu VM, one would need to map the physical hard drive to a virtual disk and add that virtual disk to the VM. I haven't been able to find how to do this, and I especially don't know how to do this when Windows doesn't recognize the drive and doesn't assign it a drive letter.
My Question
Could you please provide step-by-step instructions on how to get my "unintialized disk" to be mounted/viewable/navigable in my Ubuntu VM? From there, I'm hoping to figure out how to use GNU ddrescue to clone the drive and then TestDisk to extract the data. Thanks!
Software Versions
I am using VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566 (Qt5.6.2) and running an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS VM on a Windows 10 host.
18.04 mount virtualbox hard-drive
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The Issue
I had a Windows 10 PC whose hard drive went belly up. I'm trying to recover data from it by using an Ubuntu VM through VirtualBox on another Windows 10 PC.
What I've Done
So far, I have:
- Installed the damaged hard drive in another PC via a SATA connection.
- Created an Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox.
- Failed to figure out how to mount the damaged hard drive in Ubuntu.
When I go to Disk Management on the host, it shows the damaged disk as uninitialized (screenshot below):
My understanding is that normally to get a drive to display in an Ubuntu VM, one would need to map the physical hard drive to a virtual disk and add that virtual disk to the VM. I haven't been able to find how to do this, and I especially don't know how to do this when Windows doesn't recognize the drive and doesn't assign it a drive letter.
My Question
Could you please provide step-by-step instructions on how to get my "unintialized disk" to be mounted/viewable/navigable in my Ubuntu VM? From there, I'm hoping to figure out how to use GNU ddrescue to clone the drive and then TestDisk to extract the data. Thanks!
Software Versions
I am using VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566 (Qt5.6.2) and running an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS VM on a Windows 10 host.
18.04 mount virtualbox hard-drive
asked Dec 27 at 22:52
Jake Reece
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For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11
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The Issue
I had a Windows 10 PC whose hard drive went belly up. I'm trying to recover data from it by using an Ubuntu VM through VirtualBox on another Windows 10 PC.
What I've Done
So far, I have:
- Installed the damaged hard drive in another PC via a SATA connection.
- Created an Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox.
- Failed to figure out how to mount the damaged hard drive in Ubuntu.
When I go to Disk Management on the host, it shows the damaged disk as uninitialized (screenshot below):
My understanding is that normally to get a drive to display in an Ubuntu VM, one would need to map the physical hard drive to a virtual disk and add that virtual disk to the VM. I haven't been able to find how to do this, and I especially don't know how to do this when Windows doesn't recognize the drive and doesn't assign it a drive letter.
My Question
Could you please provide step-by-step instructions on how to get my "unintialized disk" to be mounted/viewable/navigable in my Ubuntu VM? From there, I'm hoping to figure out how to use GNU ddrescue to clone the drive and then TestDisk to extract the data. Thanks!
Software Versions
I am using VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566 (Qt5.6.2) and running an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS VM on a Windows 10 host.
18.04 mount virtualbox hard-drive
asked Dec 27 at 22:52
Jake Reece
1064
New contributor
Jake Reece is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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The Issue
I had a Windows 10 PC whose hard drive went belly up. I'm trying to recover data from it by using an Ubuntu VM through VirtualBox on another Windows 10 PC.
What I've Done
So far, I have:
- Installed the damaged hard drive in another PC via a SATA connection.
- Created an Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox.
- Failed to figure out how to mount the damaged hard drive in Ubuntu.
When I go to Disk Management on the host, it shows the damaged disk as uninitialized (screenshot below):
My understanding is that normally to get a drive to display in an Ubuntu VM, one would need to map the physical hard drive to a virtual disk and add that virtual disk to the VM. I haven't been able to find how to do this, and I especially don't know how to do this when Windows doesn't recognize the drive and doesn't assign it a drive letter.
My Question
Could you please provide step-by-step instructions on how to get my "unintialized disk" to be mounted/viewable/navigable in my Ubuntu VM? From there, I'm hoping to figure out how to use GNU ddrescue to clone the drive and then TestDisk to extract the data. Thanks!
Software Versions
I am using VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566 (Qt5.6.2) and running an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS VM on a Windows 10 host.
18.04 mount virtualbox hard-drive
18.04 mount virtualbox hard-drive
asked Dec 27 at 22:52
Jake Reece
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asked Dec 27 at 22:52
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asked Dec 27 at 22:52
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asked Dec 27 at 22:52
Jake Reece
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asked Dec 27 at 22:52
Jake Reece
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1064
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For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11
add a comment |
For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11
For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11
add a comment |
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For future reference, it might be much easier to simply boot into the "Try Ubuntu" environment of a LiveUSB to conduct your data recovery.
– user535733
Dec 28 at 0:07
I thought about that, but I I would like to be able to kick off data recovery in the background and continue working in Windows (the host).
– Jake Reece
Dec 28 at 0:11