Fiona,
thank you for your feedback so far.
The main problem seems to be an incorrect disk size.
My first aim is to make sure the disk is regognized as a 4TB disk.
I corrected the CHS values (they must be 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors) which I set with TestDisk. But then the reported ...
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- 03 Jul 2014, 20:41
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
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- 01 Jul 2014, 04:46
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
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Re: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
Using Disk I get this info:
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1801 GB / 1678 GiB - CHS219051 255 63
The harddisk (1801 GB / 1678 GiB) sems too small! << 4244GG / 3952 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partition can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size ...
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1801 GB / 1678 GiB - CHS219051 255 63
The harddisk (1801 GB / 1678 GiB) sems too small! << 4244GG / 3952 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partition can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size ...
- 30 Jun 2014, 17:31
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4887
4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
Hi all
my 4TB Western Digital Mybook suddenly failed, could be a powersurge or whatever, but it just quit, all files gone, dick not reconizable in windows. The LED that usually blinks intermidiate during I/O stayed on permanently and the disk kept spinning rather than power don as it should after a ...
my 4TB Western Digital Mybook suddenly failed, could be a powersurge or whatever, but it just quit, all files gone, dick not reconizable in windows. The LED that usually blinks intermidiate during I/O stayed on permanently and the disk kept spinning rather than power don as it should after a ...