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by robbingTM
06 Jul 2021, 11:53
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: lost ext4 partitions
Replies: 6
Views: 4085

Re: lost ext4 partitions


Can you try TestDisk, partition type: None, Advanced, List ?
If you can see your files, try "fsck.ext4 -b 98304 -B 4096 /dev/sda"


I just get the message:

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
P ext4 0 0 1 1702132 ...
by robbingTM
06 Jul 2021, 02:30
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: lost ext4 partitions
Replies: 6
Views: 4085

Re: lost ext4 partitions

cgrenier wrote: 05 Jul 2021, 17:44 Can you try TestDisk, partition type: None, Advanced, List ?
If you can see your files, try "fsck.ext4 -b 98304 -B 4096 /dev/sda"
I'll give this a shot, and report back my findings. thx for the advice
by robbingTM
06 Jul 2021, 02:30
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: lost ext4 partitions
Replies: 6
Views: 4085

Re: lost ext4 partitions


This is unclear. If there is no file system that windows understands, windows will not write there unless you partitino and format it.


Yea Windows didn't recognise the volumes as anything so it offered to initialize them like they were new disks. I didn't realise this would alter them like it ...
by robbingTM
05 Jul 2021, 12:40
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: lost ext4 partitions
Replies: 6
Views: 4085

Re: lost ext4 partitions

part 3:


Write isn't available because the partition table type "None" has been selected.
Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Partition table type (auto): None
Disk /dev/sdd - 10000 GB / 9314 GiB - HGST HUH721010ALE604
Partition table type: None

Interface Advanced
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 98304 ...
by robbingTM
05 Jul 2021, 12:38
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: lost ext4 partitions
Replies: 6
Views: 4085

lost ext4 partitions

Hi all,
I had a spare server with a bunch of storage so I thought I might as well get Ubuntu going on there and use the storage for farming CHIA.
I formatted the drives and created Ext4 volumes and got to plotting.

A few months later, I wanted to use the PC for a test environment so I added ...