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by sandyman
25 Aug 2020, 22:47
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?
Replies: 8
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Re: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?

Sorry - yes, I know WD22 is the largest and that is the accessible partition which allows me to preview the files using 'p'.

However, as mentioned it seems roughly one third of the files are gone / are 0 bytes in size.

Do you think I have lost them permanently, or could there be a way to recover ...
by sandyman
25 Aug 2020, 19:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?
Replies: 8
Views: 1959

Re: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?

This is the error message I see when attempting to preview the files on the second / larger partition:
by sandyman
25 Aug 2020, 19:23
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?
Replies: 8
Views: 1959

Re: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?

That is the strange thing - when I select the larger partition, I -can- see the missing directories. BUT many files are missing and are reported as being '0' bytes .... it seems roughly 1/3 of the files are missing (which would make sense if the partition was only showing as 2TB + 1TB unallocated ...
by sandyman
25 Aug 2020, 13:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?
Replies: 8
Views: 1959

Re: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?

Thanks for the reply. Running Deep Search now.

Using GPT, the screenshots below are what I currently get. Which one looks like the complete 3TB partition?

Also wondering about that 'seems too small!' error ....
by sandyman
24 Aug 2020, 14:22
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?
Replies: 8
Views: 1959

Testdisk recovered one partition, but Windows shows a 3TB as 2TB ... what next?

https://i.imgur.com/viEFFRA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JVpc7et.jpg

Hi all,

I used Testdisk to recover a partition after one drive became unreadable. It worked - in part.

However, many files are missing as it seems to have recovered a 2TB partition, leaving the remaining 746GB as 'Unallocated ...