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recuperation wrote: 01 May 2024, 09:02

Thank you it seems like I have not lost anything important at least so I will try backup the data and reformat. Thanks

After scanning the unnallocated portion of the drive with EaseUs it reports about 11gb of lost data. none of it relevant to me at all.
would it be safe to assume that there was never data in that portion of the drive and to just extend over it continue the recovery process?

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I was able to find the partition and it let me write it, but it wouldn't let me write the new boot sector.
Any suggestions?

This probably isn't that relevant but it shows that I've read and wrote the drive quite a lot with no data issues in the past. I don't believe there's any chance of the drive being fake, but I may have prematurely wrote the 2tb partition table the first time I ran TestDisk
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So should I give up on the deep search and just start backing up my files?

When I chose Intel at the start i'm able to recover any files, but in GPT mode it fails to recover anything.
Could this suggest that I had an MBR partition table with a non standard sector size?

Yes I am using TestDisk
I'm on Windows 11, I can see the first 2048gb of the drive in windows disk management as a ntfs drive but the other 1600 or so gb are just listed as unallocated.
I had not tested the disk beforehand but had put over 2tb of data on it previously and it all passed verification ...

Just to confirm, all my files are there and visible on teskdisk, but I don't have 4tb of storage to back it all up onto.
Windows shows the 2tb partition as NTFS and will even show my files if mounted, but I'm sure theres a good 1tb or so not showing up.

Hello, I've got a 4tb drive that I accidentally deleted the partition table on. I'm able to recover it with test disk, but only the first 2048gb are showing as recovered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Tue Apr 30 13:40:03 2024
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery ...