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by flatline
23 Apr 2020, 18:16
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)
Replies: 3
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Re: Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)

I've also tried the following (from the pdf manual):

➜ ~ sudo fsck_hfs /dev/disk2s1
** /dev/rdisk2s1
Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-522.100.5).
volumeType is 0
/dev/rdisk2s1 0000: 0000 004e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000 |...NTFS.........|
/dev/rdisk2s1 0010: 0000 0000 00f8 0000 0100 0100 3f00 ...
by flatline
23 Apr 2020, 15:53
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)
Replies: 3
Views: 2988

Re: Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)

Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated. I'm on a Mac, so running the equivalent...



Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P MS Data 63 1953520064 1953520002 [Iomega HDD]

Boot sector
Status: OK

Backup boot sector
Status: OK ...
by flatline
22 Apr 2020, 20:27
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)
Replies: 3
Views: 2988

Can't recover partition: The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1863 GiB)

Hi,

FIrst time on this forum, and first time using testdisk. I'm trying to rescue files from a fairly old 1TB external hard drive (which was previously plugged into Windows machines, but I now have a Mac). I've run testdisk, it's turning up two 'deleted' partitions, which look identical (and ...