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by DansDisks
06 Sep 2019, 01:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?
Replies: 10
Views: 4587

Re: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?

That's an interesting theory about Windows update causing the issue.
Windows Build 1903 has been causing problems with various programs for a few months.
I'll look into that.

Your other advice, which I already do, is good.
My Linux and Windows file systems are on separate physical hard disks.
My ...
by DansDisks
03 Sep 2019, 18:52
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?
Replies: 10
Views: 4587

Re: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?

Thanks for the reply and the links to the docs.
I made sure to read them and search for similar posts before posting.
Since my issue doesn't match the docs, and at stake for me is 20 years of family memories, photos, and financial data, I am trying to be extremely careful and ask lots of questions ...
by DansDisks
03 Sep 2019, 02:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?
Replies: 10
Views: 4587

Re: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?

There is a recent thread titled
Recover ext4 partition deleted & overwritten


I followed your advice in that thread
TestDisk should be able to find the partition using Deeper Search (TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search, Stop, Deeper Search...) using the ext4 backup superblock.


I got similar ...
by DansDisks
02 Sep 2019, 17:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?
Replies: 10
Views: 4587

Re: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?

Mr. Grenier, thanks for answering this personally and thanks for making this tool!

Originally, before the problem, there was one non-encrypted ext4 partition on the 3TB HDD named "DANDATALIVE".
As you can see from the log, there are now 15 partitions, none of them have that name.

I just ran an ...
by DansDisks
01 Sep 2019, 02:21
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?
Replies: 10
Views: 4587

I recovered unexpected, unwanted partitions - Is my original partition still recoverable?

Hello all and thank you in advance for reading this,

[Short version]
The single partition on my 3TB drive disappeared.
I used Testdisk which found it, I thought I wrote out the partition correctly, but after restart, I have about 8 new partitions of varying sizes, none of them have my data and ...