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by meowsus
05 Apr 2012, 16:09
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Lost XFS/SysV partitions on external Western Digital drive
Replies: 3
Views: 7880

Re: Lost XFS/SysV partitions on external Western Digital dri

Fiona,

Thank you so much for your reply. This clarifies what's been going on a bit for me, and I'm very appreciative of your help!

That recognized partition would be more than 4 million TB.
TestDisk can find partitions based on any remnants and can be ignored.
Especially if partition table type ...
by meowsus
04 Apr 2012, 22:09
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Lost XFS/SysV partitions on external Western Digital drive
Replies: 3
Views: 7880

Re: Lost XFS (?) Partition on external drive

I wonder if I should just stop messing with this thing and run PhotoRec.

The main problem I've had with PhotoRec is the issues recovering fragmented videos. I'd rather save the partition info on this drive, so I can access everything directly, minimizing the chances of a bunch of <1sec clips being ...
by meowsus
29 Mar 2012, 20:00
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Lost XFS/SysV partitions on external Western Digital drive
Replies: 3
Views: 7880

Lost XFS/SysV partitions on external Western Digital drive

A friend of mine asked me to take a look at his external hard drive because it suddenly wasn't mounting any longer. He had been running it with a power cord with exposed wires and the "enclosure" the hard drive lived in was a VHS case, filled with foam padding, and wrapped in electrical tape.

Yeah ...