How to access HD with previous installation?

asked 2016-05-28 05:32:27 -0500

Gennaro
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The thing is this: my laptop which had Fedora 20 is now destroyed. I was able to remove the Hdd. I installed Fedora 23 on another laptop – different model, different brand – while considering that I could plug the old HDD to copy my documents. But of course it didn't work: I am able only to see grub: a small partition (15 Mb), while all the rest (500 Gb) simply disappeared. I tried – just to check – to connect the HDD to a Mac: it was able to read an unformatted drive; and on windows 7: and it does not even recognize the drive.

Any suggestion on how to get into that disk? Thanks

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answered 2016-05-28 15:28:11 -0500

mclmmc

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Probably you left unchanged formatting parameters during installation of F20 and F23, then you have enabled LVM.

three solutions:

Use a live distribution to access the disk and copy the contents.
LVM allows you to fix it, but I'm not so expert to help you. the real problem is the possible conflict with the names used by f20 and f23
testdisk It is a data recovery tool. look here for a little tutorial.