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muggi wrote:sorry, found a solution my self.

Would you mind sharing your own solution? Thanks!

BTW, I see some lines like below in my testdisk.log (http://pastebin.com/dbMRAVsY),

recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 98304 -B 4096 device" may be needed

Do I have to execute them manually?

And whether 'device' in above output means partition or HDD? Update: e2fsck man pages states that it is a ...

One point to check is whether you are running testdisk in administrator mode since other modes might not allow write permissions.

Thanks for prompt reply. But I am running sudo to run testdisk from a liveDVD after checking whether any portion of the HDD is mounted and none of them mounted. So the ...

Hi:

I have tried to recover some partitions using testdisk with deeper search. It shows up all my partitions (including the extended ones which were lost with exact sizes in GBs). UPDATE: I tried with 'sudo' as well as 'root' and still the same results. :(

TestDisk Quick Search Output

http://i ...

Hi:

Could anyone suggdest me whether it is safe the following?

Testdisk > 'Analyze' > 'Quick Search' output the following results as earlier:

1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 51 30 43 819200 [SYSTEM]
2 P HPFS - NTFS 51 30 44 6577 254 54 104854313 [WINDOWS]
3 E extended LBA 2610 0 1 38913 254 63 ...

As stated here (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_FAQ#How_to_make_the_system_bootable_again), I tried to insall grub in the /dev/sda,

$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/dev/sda5 /dev/sda

but pops out the follwoing error:

/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /dev/sda5 ...

Hi:

I am trying to recover the partitions that was lost after I ran the testdisk for the first time in Ubuntu linux.

I ran testdisk using a bootable iso image from usb stick and it sees all the partitions and also ask to reboot the computer after writing filesystems, but upon reboot, the recovered ...