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by mpw90
25 Oct 2019, 16:10
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess
Replies: 6
Views: 4227

Re: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess


Unless you did not use the "clean all" feature of diskpart there is always a chance that justifies running Testdisk.


I did not, but I believe the data is gone. I have run photorec and testdisk over night to look for als files on the ddrescue partition. It didn't find any. It found swf files ...
by mpw90
25 Oct 2019, 01:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess
Replies: 6
Views: 4227

Re: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess



Does this make sense?


I don't understand your question.


Apologies,

My question is: After cleaning with Diskpart, then adding 'quick' formats as Fat32 that may or may not have overlapped with original partition, then writing partition GPT partition table on this mess, and ddrescuing THAT ...
by mpw90
24 Oct 2019, 17:43
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess
Replies: 6
Views: 4227

Re: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess


On next screen, check all partitions that looks like your lost partition, use 'p' to list your files.
If it's ok, set the partition to P(rimary).
On next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit

If your partition isn't found, it's still possible to use PhotoRec to recover your data. Be careful to ...
by mpw90
24 Oct 2019, 15:29
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess
Replies: 6
Views: 4227

Diskpart Clean -> Format -> Create GPT Table -- What a mess

Hi,

I'll keep it quick but detailed.

Corrupted W10 bootloader wasn't being repaired by any of the bootrec commands. Was planning to preparing to backup an external drive and accidentally wiped the main partition with diskpart clean, and then created some quick formats also using diskpart. It was ...