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by mshaffer
15 Mar 2018, 06:12
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu
Replies: 4
Views: 11552

Re: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu

Based on a similar system in our network, the info should be:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10

Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present


### knowing this, how do I proceed with a recovery?

What I have on the corrupt system is:

GPT fdisk (gdisk ...
by mshaffer
14 Mar 2018, 15:08
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu
Replies: 4
Views: 11552

Re: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu

A little help?

It takes about 20 hours to do a "Quick Search" on 8TB /dev/sdd/ and I am doing this remotely, so the connection drops if I don't move forward with the next step.

I am running two instances for /dev/sdc/ and /dev/sdd/ in different folders so the testlog is now preserved. Attached is ...
by mshaffer
12 Mar 2018, 16:36
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu
Replies: 4
Views: 11552

Re: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu

Thanks for the note.

Attached is a screenshot of bootup where EXT4-fs through some errors trying to recover the journal.

http://md5.mshaffer.com/cgsecurity/myerror.jpg

Both partitions are part of an external DAS, and when trying to mount, no error would appear, but when trying to access data in ...
by mshaffer
11 Mar 2018, 06:20
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu
Replies: 4
Views: 11552

EXT4 - how to recover unknown partition table ubuntu

Somehow a partition table got lost. I did some Google search and ended up here.

So I loaded TestDisk

Selected Non Partition, Did Quick Scan

It found the EXT4 partition (8TB drive via RAID10)

When I clicked 'p' I could see my folders and files... PHEW!

So how do I recover it, to rebuild the GPT ...