some motherboards have problem with 3TB recognition. Your WD hard disk was in external enclosure ? If yes, you have to let it in, because of "on the fly" encryption.
I would be surprised since it's a brand new ASUS Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. I don't believe he encrypted his hard drive, since he ...
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- 16 May 2012, 08:43
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Unknown partition table, wrong capacity
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- 09 Apr 2012, 05:42
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Unknown partition table, wrong capacity
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Re: Unknown partition table, wrong capacity
I'm running Arch Linux x86-64 on the data recovery machine, and I believe my friend had a single NTFS partition filling the drive. TestDisk is unable to find any partitions, which I assume is because it doesn't see the right capacity. Maybe I need to manually adjust the geometry? The analysis screen ...
- 28 Mar 2012, 07:50
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Unknown partition table, wrong capacity
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Unknown partition table, wrong capacity
Trying to salvage whatever I can from my friend's 3TB Western Digital hard drive. It doesn't make any terrible sounds that might indicate serious physical damage, for whatever it's worth. Doesn't mount and has an unknown partition table. Attempted a partition table recovery with TestDisk, but it's ...