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Short of it is that I've fried my MFT something wicked and am trying to get data off the Windows partition. My laptop is a Lenovo Yoga 3 14, which has documented issues with the Ubuntu Broadcom drivers, and I'm not able to start the wifi from the Live USB even if I follow the instructions in that link. So, no internet. I don't want to install Ubuntu on the hard drive in case it damages the Windows partition further. I have downloaded the newest version of testdisk for Linux, popped it on another USB drive, and am now trying to run testdisk, but with no luck:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/testdisk-7.0$ sudo ./testdisk_static
sudo: ./testdisk_static: command not found
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/testdisk-7.0$ sudo testdisk_static
sudo: testdisk_static: command not found
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/testdisk-7.0$ sudo -i
root@ubuntu:~# cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop/testdisk-7.0/ && ./testdisk_static
-bash: ./testdisk_static: Permission denied

What's going on, and am I able to run testdisk without access to apt-get?

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Try this:

chmod +x testdisk_static

Then:

./testdisk_static
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    Welcome to AskUbuntu :-) Please add more details into your answer, and if possible, test in an own computer, that it works (can solve the problem in the question).
    – sudodus
    Oct 9, 2017 at 14:23

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