Re: [Trisquel-users] Recovering old USB drive previously used with MacBook

[xliang9550]

Maybe you need a newer version of Gparted and try to fix the problems (if  
any) with both partitions. I never use legacy versions of disk utilities  
(like those in Trisquel) for such critical jobs. I recently used latest  
Gparted to fix an NTFS volume which has been "sentenced to death" under  
Losedows and retrieved all data. (Though I had to go to Losedows to run  
"chkdsk -f" as the finishing touch to make the disk usable again.)

I sometimes use the official Gparted Live, based on Debian sid. Though it  
enables contrib and non-free repositories by default, it doesn't come with  
any non-free software (included in the ISO). So as soon as you boot into the  
Live environment, disable the contrib and non-free repositories and you  
should have a free/libre Live environment. apt and dpkg are pre-configured,  
so if you need additional disk utilities, just download and install them from  
Debian's main repository.