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by fabml
04 Feb 2019, 18:36
Forum: File recovery
Topic: MP3 files and fragmentation
Replies: 4
Views: 5917

Re: MP3 files and fragmentation

Thank you for the answers.
I'm worried about the eventuality that a file could contain a piece of another audio file. For example, if we have two files (a.mp3, b.mp3) and some a.mp3's fragment is written AFTER b.mp3 starting, but before its ending, a.mp3 will be truncated or will contain b.mp3 ...
by fabml
02 Feb 2019, 23:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Files not located correctly
Replies: 1
Views: 1483

Files not located correctly

Hi,
while I try to recover the data with photorec, I explain the problem that occurred hoping to be able to solve it with Testdisk.
I was extending the second partition on my external 2 TB NTFS drive from 250 GB to 300 GB, reducing the first partition by 50 GB (so I extended the second one from left ...
by fabml
02 Feb 2019, 21:45
Forum: File recovery
Topic: MP3 files and fragmentation
Replies: 4
Views: 5917

MP3 files and fragmentation

Hi,
I'm using Photorec to recover a big number of MP3 files. They are stored in a drive that has not heavy fragmentation, but I think that it is unavoidable. So what happens when a file is fragmented? Will the file be incomplete or will it contain a piece of the contiguous file? They are very long ...