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by schwarznold
25 Aug 2012, 23:12
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: incorrect number of bytes per sector
Replies: 4
Views: 20977

Re: incorrect number of bytes per sector

Hi.
I didn' try to change the sector size, since it is probably correct (I checked that my Acer computer proposed NTFS 4096 as a standard format for HDD...).
I had a look to the boot sectors which appeared to be deeply damaged:
Disk /dev/sdc - 750 GB / 698 GiB - CHS 11400 255 63
3 P HPFS - NTFS ...
by schwarznold
18 Aug 2012, 16:19
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: incorrect number of bytes per sector
Replies: 4
Views: 20977

Re: incorrect number of bytes per sector

Dear Fiona,
Thank you for your quick and detailled answer.
For sure, I'll get more info about 4096 sectors.
You must be right; it has something to do with boot error. Unfortunately, when I tried to assign a boot "*" tag the the "system reserved partition" instead of the "pqservice" one, testdisk ...
by schwarznold
12 Aug 2012, 19:32
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: incorrect number of bytes per sector
Replies: 4
Views: 20977

incorrect number of bytes per sector

Hello,
Since it is my first message, please let me introduce myself. I am a medical doctor who recently crashes his hdd (probably after using an "optimising" tool under windows 7). I love (and hate) computers since 30 years (you know: commodore 64, Amiga, i386, windows 3.10, etc...).
I must say that ...