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Hello,

Got a chance to give an update now! I am not clear on adding the partition manually for Windows, but I had an issue with my 2 linux root partitions that I couldn't figure out. Even if I left every other partitions as deleted , testdisk warned of these partitions as being: structure: bad ...

Here are my partitions after I deleted the windows partitions but before I tried to recover them in test disk, back in January:

Current partition structure:
1 P Linux 0 32 33 10917 14 41 175380480 [Movies and Shows]
3 E extended 10917 47 9 60801 80 15 801388546
No partition is bootable
5 L ...

Hello,

I started doing a complete deeper search first with GPT and then I'll do it once again with Intel/MBR. I will try to change the first partition found that is valid to P then the rest to L and see what happens. Did you have a chance to view the testdisk.log that I recently found? It could be ...

Hello again!

When recovering my files, I found the testdisk.log from before I recovered the Windows NTFS partitions! It shows the logical partitions that were part of the extended partition, including swap! This is at the stage when I deleted my Windows partitions in Gparted without changing any ...

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11% of what?

I meant 11% of a deeper search, at that point at I peferred to shut things down. I could try one last complete deeper search with GPT partition table, but I am pretty sure that my drive was partionned Intel/MBR. In the past, I had previously re-partionned part of ...

Hello,

...suggests you should use GPT instead of Intel/MBR when asked for the partition table type.


I am pretty sure that the drive was originally partitioned with Intel/MBR. In the meantime I went ahead with Intel table type and recuperated my partitions with data. Is this why I am getting ...

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I went through the deeper search again and went through all the results and found the valid partitions (with all my missing files), but I hit a wall again. I could not change the partitions from deleted to either L or P past 4 of them even excluding the NTFS partition. It kept warning ...

thanks for your reply!

I have done so (checked for the files inside the partition) in an previous deeper search but I had not done a complete check of all the required partitions. So that will be my next step later.
Does it matter which deleted partition(s), I use for the deeper search? That part ...

Here is the result of deeper search of first few partitions (deleted)

Linux 42390 186 37 60278 97 43 287365120 [MultimediaII]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 147 GB / 137 GiB
BAD_RS LBA=3467322276 13102435
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
check_part_i386 failed for ...

Hello again,

I have been called away and had to set the laptop aside all this time! I hope there is a way back for my harddrive!

I have made a couple of log files so far and I am still doing a deeper search on yet another deleted partition.

I would like to recover 6 ext4 partitions but deeper ...