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by toddbailey
12 Jul 2012, 14:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Uninitialized partition after power failure
Replies: 3
Views: 3833

Re: Uninitialized partition after power failure

I need to start over with this one and I may be making things worse.

when I first started using testdisk, It indicated the intel pc partition format.
When I realized I should have selected gpt I stopped testdisk scan and restarted under gpt.
This was under the assumption that intel-pc format only ...
by toddbailey
10 Jul 2012, 19:34
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Uninitialized partition after power failure
Replies: 3
Views: 3833

Re: Uninitialized partition after power failure

Moving on to deep scan , but basically starting over,


I used fdisk to set the partition id to 83, same as the other partitions on the controller.
So basically I back to an uninitialized partition.
I've rerunning a quick scan that should complete in 18 hrs. or so.
by toddbailey
10 Jul 2012, 18:27
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Uninitialized partition after power failure
Replies: 3
Views: 3833

Uninitialized partition after power failure

In a nut shell, after a power fail a partition came up uninitialized.

more details

4 disk raid 5 array on an areca arc 1120 sata controller.

Drive was initialized using the controllers firmware, the disk was then
prepared for use under GParted Partition Editor where partition is
created and ...