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by Pocket
26 Aug 2020, 18:52
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Scanned an only-slightly-overwritten drive and most of the files are missing
Replies: 3
Views: 1349

Re: Scanned an only-slightly-overwritten drive and most of the files are missing

Is there a reason why the "ntfs_readdir failed" errors are happening to clusters as far apart as 5 and 471075? It seems like that shouldn't be happening.
by Pocket
26 Aug 2020, 10:33
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Scanned an only-slightly-overwritten drive and most of the files are missing
Replies: 3
Views: 1349

Scanned an only-slightly-overwritten drive and most of the files are missing

I have a 2TB external drive that, for reasons too ridiculous to elaborate on, had a 500GB Linux drive dd'd onto it by accident for about 20 seconds, overwriting the partition table and probably very little else. And while none of the mainstream recovery programs seemed to be able to recover the ...