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by kera
07 Oct 2016, 04:57
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

Re: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb

You won't believe this, but I used photorec in order to recover my files, as I was going to try some other things. After 3 days I was 75% complete in recovering my files from the drive when I had a popup asking me to upgrade to the new Windows 10. I have tried it already and didn't want it and ...
by kera
07 Oct 2016, 01:07
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

Re: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb

I did try using EFI GPT partition by using testdisk 7.1 selecting my disk, EFI GPT, Advanced showed No partition available. Analyse says bad partition, invalid signature.

While I was running it, my computer kept saying the drive was full, so I kept transferring things to another hard drive. It ...
by kera
05 Oct 2016, 18:18
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

Re: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb

OK thank you. I will try that. That must be why now it says the drive seems too small. So I haven't made any unrepairable mistakes?
by kera
05 Oct 2016, 01:06
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trying to recover Seagate 4tb
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

Trying to recover Seagate 4tb

My Windows image was stored on my 4tb external hard drive. When I reinstalled the image, my external hard drive was also re-formatted. I think I had a spare hard drive connected when I created the image. It just had several bad Linux partitions, so that is what my 4tb hard drive has now.

I ...