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by Maximice
06 Jun 2023, 15:35
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk
Replies: 4
Views: 19692

Re: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk

Do you mean that testdisk showed that warning after writing the partition because the found partition had 4096 bytes/sector and the disk connected over SATA is 512? And it I run testdisk over the usb connection as it originally was I wouldn't get that error? It is why I advised cloning the original ...
by Maximice
05 Jun 2023, 17:43
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk
Replies: 4
Views: 19692

Re: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk

Finally I solved it!

Altough I got those errors in Testdisk writing the parrtition found and I couldn't mount the disk on linuso, so I connected on Windows andeven it showed the drive letter I was not able to access it so I run "chkdsk /f <drive letter:>" and it repair the partition and the disk ...
by Maximice
04 Jun 2023, 16:10
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Data and file names present but can't recover
Replies: 3
Views: 16540

Re: Data and file names present but can't recover

Always try to connect the disk with SATA, Testdisk works better than over USB connection.

Also, it is better to clone the disk to a image file and then working with the image file instead to clone it to another disk to avoid hardware issues with the copy.

Also try to recover the files instead the ...
by Maximice
03 Jun 2023, 15:35
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk
Replies: 4
Views: 19692

Re: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk

By the way when conecting the usb externa drive to SATA instead I was able to find the partition and list the files in test disk. But before trying to write the partition I cloned the disk (dd command) tand I am playing with a clone one.

It found the NTFS partition I want to recover but before ...
by Maximice
02 Jun 2023, 00:01
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk
Replies: 4
Views: 19692

Disk size error recoverinng a both repartitioned and formated disk

I need help finishing repairing filesystem.

I had a secondary data disk (8TB external USB) GPT with 2 partitions. First one it was small and I do not know if it was for recovery or EFI or system. Second one it was a large NTFS partition taking out the rest of the disk with all the data I want to ...