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by loros
11 Oct 2023, 17:11
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd
Replies: 5
Views: 28522

Re: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd

Just an update, I managed to get the new version of testdisk to copy the backup BS to the start of the drive.

testdisk was unsuccessful beyond that point, it couldn't find the MFT

I used GetDataBack NTFS, which was able to recover everything that was recoverable. Just for future ref for anyone ...
by loros
10 Oct 2023, 12:08
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd
Replies: 5
Views: 28522

Re: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd

recuperation wrote: 07 Oct 2023, 05:05 Please use the most recent version of Testdisk and post your complete logfile.
It's a long log file:

https://paste.bingner.com/paste/4reng (0-20000)
https://paste.bingner.com/paste/vyz5p (20000-40000)
https://paste.bingner.com/paste/pb6hp (40000-50000)
by loros
06 Oct 2023, 13:47
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd
Replies: 5
Views: 28522

Re: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd

Just while I have you, Analyse has just finished, can you help with interpretation?

The top sector looks promising, the cursor states that it has been found NTFS using backup boot sector. It's the full size of the drive, at a bs=512 (3906959360), but when I select P, select files, it's empty, just ...
by loros
06 Oct 2023, 12:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd
Replies: 5
Views: 28522

1GB of 2TB NTFS HDD overwritten using dd

Hi,

I'm not new to testdisk, I've used it before and it was excellent, managed to recover files.

I was trying to re-image a device, from a backup taken from FTK Imager. I've provided the wrong block device in a dd command (a 'b' rather than a 'c') and have overwritten the boot sector rectord of an ...