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by Mowolar
28 Apr 2015, 15:27
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)
Replies: 5
Views: 2937

Re: Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)

Hi Fiona,

The disk works fine, it's just that the partition table seems messed up.

From what I see it looks like the 'empty' partition overlaps the 'real' windows partition. This is the info from partition inspector:

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA ...
by Mowolar
28 Apr 2015, 11:39
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)
Replies: 5
Views: 2937

Re: Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)

Hi Fiona,

Retry, see attachment for the pictures!

Testdisk sees the partition, says the MBR is ok, but can't open filesystem, filesystem seems damaged.

Update: for some reason the upload attachment isn't working from my macbook.. Let me try to upload the files through wetransfer...
by Mowolar
28 Apr 2015, 10:32
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)
Replies: 5
Views: 2937

Broken NTFS partition (unusual media descriptor)

Hi all,

After changing my Mac IOS partition, my windows partition went sour.

I think the Windows partition overlap with free space. The windows partition has some important files hope not to lose. So hopefully I can repair the parition to it's old structure.

See attached pictures for some info ...