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set the files to copy now and its going through them, though would be nicer to be able to actually fix the partitions as it would be a lot faster but i can settle for this as an alternative

If you did not purchase your Toshiba 8 TB disk with an external housing you should run Testdisk in GPT mode. Otherwise only 2 TB out of 8 TB can be addressed by the MBR-style partition table given a sector size of 512 bytes.

If the partitions overlap and you don't know to which partition that ...

Would you be so kind as to upload your logfile to this site?
You can copy it into a code section:

I am the logfile!

Thank you.


Sure thing!



Sat Jan 14 23:30:35 2023
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TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, November 2022
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org ...

The first two partitions are overlapping. That's why you aren't allowed to write a partition table including both partitions.
If you have a log file including data of a deep search your only chance to avoid to repeat the analysis is by manually adding partitions.

You should use the "p"-key ("list ...

Hey thanks for the response!

Yeah both partitions have all the files listed, can see everything in the log files too, all the filestructures are intact also so it seems good there.
So if the 2 main partitions are overlapping how is the best way to write these part tables?

I could go and pay for a ...

Hey guys, recently one of my drives just gave out, the data seemed intact on the drive as i could see it all using tesktdisk, but what i did is cloned the drive to a new drive to properly recover without fear of losing the original files as i'm new to using testdisk.
I have run the analysis and a ...