I was using Testdisk in K oppix but I'm sure this applies to Ubuntu.
I can find files on the bad partition using the directory tree. I hit c to copy the file and then Testdisk wants the destination folder.
Every example video or instruction page says I should be seeing a direcotry tree on my destination drive. I don't but the destination drive shows its mounted.
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I'm not sure where testdisk is looking, but it should be able to browse right from your root directory to anywhere (if it's running as root/sudo), and it usually only targets devices for working on, not mountpoints, maybe that's the problem?
apt-get should definitely install testdisk, it's in ubuntu's universe repository, maybe universe isn't enabled in your sources so it's not showing up? dpkg -i can install downloaded .deb files too, though usually apt is easier / safer.
