The problem is the HPA. Here is my posting on the Western Digital website:
WD Hidden Protected Area (HPA) is an Extremely High Security Risk I have read of more than one unfortunate person suffer the problem of partitioning a WD disk, copying across user data to then find on reboot that the data ...
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- 07 Jan 2014, 03:56
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Partition Table Recovery ext4, 3TB - wrong size
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- 17 Dec 2013, 05:01
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Partition Table Recovery ext4, 3TB - wrong size
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Partition Table Recovery ext4, 3TB - wrong size
Hi,
A partition table got accidentally overwritten during an OS install. No data has been touched.
Originally the partition was a single primary partition ext4 of maximum size.
Running TestDisk in deep mode , only with the first partition candidate was I able to see files. In all other candidates ...
A partition table got accidentally overwritten during an OS install. No data has been touched.
Originally the partition was a single primary partition ext4 of maximum size.
Running TestDisk in deep mode , only with the first partition candidate was I able to see files. In all other candidates ...