Unmounted Hard Drive in Dolphin - Can i recover the data?

[orangesox]

I've been a Kubuntu user on my laptop for several years. Last year, i for some reason "unmounted" my hard drive within Dolphin. That volume is now shown as empty. I have done research to try to recover it but no luck. Perhaps someone here can help me. I would be deeply appreciative. Pictures of my daughter and a lot of great music are at stake. Thanks advancely!

//Chris

[Qqmike]

PhotoRec, perhaps? It comes as part of TestDisk.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/
You have to learn how to use it -- see the site for guidance.

[Qqmike]

Many of us here have used PhotoRec and TestDisk successfully.

[oshunluvr]

Photorec will recover files, but a drive thats "unmounted" will not show any files in it's mount point. Have you tried to mount it?

[claydoh]

Which hard drive? (what was it labeled as?) - if it were your /home or root dir, it would not allow your partition to be unmounted, as it is still in use. Have you logged out or rebooted?

I do not think recovery software is necessary (yet), if this could simply be an unmounted drive - so the data on it may be just fine.

please post the contents of the file /etc/fstab and the out put of the command:
mount

a simple 'sudo mount -a' may be enough, if the partition is included in the fstab file

[orangesox]

Which hard drive? (what was it labeled as?) - if it were your /home or root dir, it would not allow your partition to be unmounted, as it is still in use. Have you logged out or rebooted?

I do not think recovery software is necessary (yet), if this could simply be an unmounted drive - so the data on it may be just fine.

please post the contents of the file /etc/fstab and the out put of the command:
mount

a simple 'sudo mount -a' may be enough, if the partition is included in the fstab file

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=50c752d7-dbe0-4b95-b8d2-16bf84619dc7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=551236bd-328b-45fb-ac4c-ee4552de170a none swap sw 0 0

/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda1 on /media/7C37-9697 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed ,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)

[Qqmike]

geez, good points, you guys!

[orangesox]

Photorec will recover files, but a drive thats "unmounted" will not show any files in it's mount point. Have you tried to mount it?

I have remounted it but upon doing so it was shown to be empty. I do not think i ever recreated the file system or anything like that, though.

[orangesox]

Well something terrible has happened after using the utilities mentioned here... Im caught in a login loop now as though the device is now unmounted. Really need help, i've done my best with google searches.