Search found 3 matches

by roraparooza
18 Jan 2020, 07:14
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Help needed. On the last leg of deleted partition table recovery but too much of a noob to finish.
Replies: 2
Views: 1453

Re: Help needed. On the last leg of deleted partition table recovery but too much of a noob to finish.


If you don't want a 128MB (32 MB for smaller disk) Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR), TestDisk will not force you to have one.

Run TestDisk, select the disk, EFI GPT, Quick Search, use 'a' to manually add each partition.
Once it's ok, go on next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart ...
by roraparooza
17 Jan 2020, 11:10
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: HDD suddenly 'is not accessible', needs 'format to use'
Replies: 4
Views: 1810

Re: HDD suddenly 'is not accessible', needs 'format to use'


Don't know how to do that. Anything I can do with W7?


Download knoppix linux from here
Either burn to a dvd or write to an empty usb flashdisk using a tool like rufus, linuxlive USB Creator or yumi
Boot Knoppix from CD/USB
Open the terminal icon next to the start button and type testdisk

Be ...
by roraparooza
17 Jan 2020, 10:45
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Help needed. On the last leg of deleted partition table recovery but too much of a noob to finish.
Replies: 2
Views: 1453

Help needed. On the last leg of deleted partition table recovery but too much of a noob to finish.

TLDR; i have to use the original partitioning tool (minitool) to recreate the lost partitions on the disk to recover but minitool forces you to create a 128MB partition when initializing to GPT. Can i do the same with testdisk instead?

Full version:

1. The GPT disk to recover contained 5 veracrypt ...