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by MattWright
06 Jul 2018, 15:11
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management
Replies: 6
Views: 2433

Re: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management

For sure. Sorry I have been unable to follow up for a few days. The forum will not let me attach the image so I am pasting it here.

This is from a run where I killed test disk knowing where it would end up. By the time it was killed it had already listed the Linux partition.



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by MattWright
28 Jun 2018, 15:07
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management
Replies: 6
Views: 2433

Re: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management

During the scan, several Linux partitions were listed at a CHS Start of 0 0 1, as I hoped. These even had the correct name that we had assigned to the drive listed at the right. I was waiting until the scan finished to try to view the files in these. However, once the scan finished, the only ...
by MattWright
27 Jun 2018, 17:52
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management
Replies: 6
Views: 2433

Re: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management

And could you possibly explain a little bit more what is happening when I scan with different table options, ie. why [Intel] produces partitions labelled "Linux" and [EFI GPT] produces partitions labelled "MS Data"?
by MattWright
27 Jun 2018, 17:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management
Replies: 6
Views: 2433

Re: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management

The scans are still running and look like they will take several hours. I believe TestDisk is scanning the entire disk, even though I am confident it has already found all it will find (the disks only ever had a single partition). Is it possible to stop the scans and try to list the partitions ...
by MattWright
27 Jun 2018, 16:22
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management
Replies: 6
Views: 2433

Recover original partition after using Windows Disk Management

Hi all, I could really use some help here.

We have a computer that dual boots Ubuntu and Windows. We had an external harddrive in there that was visible in Ubuntu. It is 8TB so I assume its partition table was GPT although I do not know for sure. Someone tried to access this drive from Windows ...