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I am not expert and need a patient guide. History of events:

  1. Only XP in internal disk with documents on a seagate 500Gb
  2. Installed Ubuntu by partitioning external disk and booting from it
  3. During XP use, seagate repeatedly autorun and making a click sound. Ubuntu no longer accessible.
  4. Internal hard disk partitioned and Xubuntu installed. Xubuntu FileSystem can only see one of the partitions on seagate, which contains a folder Lost&Found but won't let me access it because it is owned by Root and when i open a terminal window and type "su" i get Authentication failure when i type in the only password i have ever given it. Yet i can install new packages with Administrator password.
  5. Testdisk can't see any partitions on seagate disk !!

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I've had some success with ddrescue on drives that made clicking noises, but if you have a backup then consider the seagate drive a lost cause, buy another drive and restore from backups. If you don't have backups, give ddrescue a shot -- it will attempt to read the disk repeatedly to access bad areas of the disk, but learn from your mistake and make sure you keep backups in the future. I had to learn the hard way, it's never fun.

ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

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