Diskpart clean mishap & "the hard disk seems too small!", a tragedy in two acts
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 00:15
Hello there! I believe I'm in the correct subforum, correct me if I'm wrong! Alright, I find myself in quite a pickle after inadvertently deleting the wrong drive, using the diskpart "clean" command (not "clean all", some silver lining eh?). At least I'm 90% sure that's what happened, since I unplugged and plugged back the other drive (the one I actually was trying to clean) inbetween the operations. I guess "disk 2" became "disk 1" and vice versa. And then I didn't double-check before hitting enter. G'job me! Since then the drive started appearing as "unallocated" in the Partition Manager. It also wants me to initialize it (I didn't). Here is a screen:
So I wanted to run a quick search in testdisk, but first strange sign (I think?), analyse defaults to "EFI GPT partition map". And then the quick search is excruciatingly long, like 10+ seconds to check one cylinder... out of 45599. Out of desperation I ran a quick search in "Intel/PC partition", it definitely went faster (still took ~5hrs), but just faster into a wall. In the end it gave me these errors: "the following partition can't be recovered" and "the hard disk seems too small". Forgot to mention, the drive is a "Samsung D3 station 3TB", if that's any help.
Oh also, I get this error code in "Intel/PC partition" analyse:
And this one in "EFI GPT partition map" analyse:
I'm a bit rusty with testdisk, haven't used it in years to recover lost data, so I don't want to overbork what I already signifanctly borked. If anyone feels like helping, you're most welcome! In the meantime I'll keep running scans and look for solutions.
Thanks!
So I wanted to run a quick search in testdisk, but first strange sign (I think?), analyse defaults to "EFI GPT partition map". And then the quick search is excruciatingly long, like 10+ seconds to check one cylinder... out of 45599. Out of desperation I ran a quick search in "Intel/PC partition", it definitely went faster (still took ~5hrs), but just faster into a wall. In the end it gave me these errors: "the following partition can't be recovered" and "the hard disk seems too small". Forgot to mention, the drive is a "Samsung D3 station 3TB", if that's any help.
Oh also, I get this error code in "Intel/PC partition" analyse:
And this one in "EFI GPT partition map" analyse:
I'm a bit rusty with testdisk, haven't used it in years to recover lost data, so I don't want to overbork what I already signifanctly borked. If anyone feels like helping, you're most welcome! In the meantime I'll keep running scans and look for solutions.
Thanks!