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by PeterJ
03 Jul 2014, 20:41
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
Replies: 5
Views: 4887

Re: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong

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 ...
by PeterJ
01 Jul 2014, 04:46
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: 4TB disk, boot & backup boot sector bad, disksize wrong
Replies: 5
Views: 4887

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 ...
by PeterJ
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 ...