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by Ultreme
16 May 2013, 18:04
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition
Replies: 8
Views: 5021

Re: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition

I saw an older thread where the partition seems to have been rebuilt manually. Is this something I could do ?

http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/reco ... d-t15.html
by Ultreme
15 May 2013, 20:33
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition
Replies: 8
Views: 5021

Re: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition

I'm pretty confident it was an Intel MBR disk. It seems Western Digital uses 4K LBA instead of 512bytes to be able to have 2.7tb MBR disk.

I have never reformated the drive since I bought it. I remember that Windows 7 x64 reported it as an MBR drive but the disk management utility had trouble ...
by Ultreme
15 May 2013, 19:21
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition
Replies: 8
Views: 5021

Re: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition

Hi, thanks again.

I've already did the deap search. It's in the first log I've post. It only find the new FAT32 partition.

Maybe I don't understand well what you want me to do.
by Ultreme
15 May 2013, 18:17
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition
Replies: 8
Views: 5021

Re: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition

Thanks for your help. I remember when I got the drive, Windows properties was reporting the drive as MBR. It seems that Western Digital use some kind of trick to make drive larger than 2.2Tb in MBR.

I did what you ask, but the List command did nothing. It was like I didn't execute it.



Here's the ...
by Ultreme
15 May 2013, 14:26
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition
Replies: 8
Views: 5021

Need help recovery 3Tb NTFS partition

Hi,

I have formatted my external drive by error. It's a WD My Book 3Tb and had previously only one NTFS partition of 2.7Tb. It is now formatted with FAT32.

I have run Testdisk Analyse, quick search and deep search but cannot find my files.

What can i do ?

Thanks for your help.

Here's below ...