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by irotema
09 Jul 2016, 11:24
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Hard drive on my Mac went bad... need help to get info out of it... I'm new to testdisk!
Replies: 0
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Hard drive on my Mac went bad... need help to get info out of it... I'm new to testdisk!

My Macbook pro laptop hard drive went bad after it failed to launch correctly coming out of sleep mode.

I had both Ubuntu and OS X 10 running on it (with their corresponding partitions). I had run testdisk from a windows computer connecting my hard drive as an external drive, and it took 6 days to ...
by irotema
08 Jul 2016, 22:18
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Replies: 4
Views: 10028

Re: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)

I decided to quit the program, and after it quit, there was more information appended into the log file... which is here:

I guess the log also shows things that I tried to do to see if I can get anything back... I'm really totally lost as to what to do from here and how to fix it...

Also... in ...
by irotema
08 Jul 2016, 14:15
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Replies: 4
Views: 10028

Re: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)

Here is a copy of the log I got... I truncated the file so that I could post it, but it just continues giving the same type of messages all the way to the end...

I mean these type of messages:

file_pread(6,1,buffer,1953525188(121601/81/21)) lseek err Invalid argument

Regards,

Ivan



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by irotema
08 Jul 2016, 05:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Replies: 4
Views: 10028

Re: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)

Thank you Christophe for your reply...

The scanning of teh disk finally finished a few minutes ago. I am trying to post the testdisk.log file... but it's telling me that the extension of the file is invalid.

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated, since I wouldn't really know what to do.

Best ...
by irotema
04 Jul 2016, 13:32
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Replies: 4
Views: 10028

check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)

My 1 TB SSD hard drive got corrupted. What I had on it was a Mac OS X partition, and an Ubuntu partition (I unfortunately don't remember what where the sizes, but the Ubuntu partition was much smaller than the Mac OS X partition). I cannot boot from either one.

I am currently using testdisk to ...