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by cubdukat
11 Mar 2018, 07:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)
Replies: 4
Views: 1992

Re: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)

Slight update...

My computer was laid low by hardware problems, but it's back up and running now with much more processing power.

I have also gotten a 5TB hard drive to copy the old LVM/NTFS drive onto. I've been running qtphotorec, and it's picking up fragments of files, but nothing I could ...
by cubdukat
21 Feb 2018, 07:20
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)
Replies: 4
Views: 1992

Re: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)

Well, it turns out that Testdisk didn't find everything., so I decided to try Photorec set to filter out video files, since that was the majority of what was on the drive. It appeared to work quite well, except that it seemed to dump all the files in one area with no specific way to identify what's ...
by cubdukat
21 Feb 2018, 01:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)
Replies: 4
Views: 1992

Re: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)

I'll take a look.

The disk in question isn't the boot disk. It's actually a drive I keep in my system where I keep video files I've downloaded from my Tivo and convert to Blu-Ray compatible files. If I have to, I'll reformat and just count it as a wash, but I'd really like for that not to happen ...
by cubdukat
17 Feb 2018, 15:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)
Replies: 4
Views: 1992

My Story (Or, Trying to Save a Data Drive Borked by Linux! Help, Please1)

I recently attempted to do a dual-boot system with WIndows 10 and Fedora 27. It was successful, but unbeknownst to me, it made one of my drives into an LVM volume. That drive is now invisible to Win10. I downloaded Active Partition Recovery (sorry!) and it's seeing the old NTFS file system ...