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by refi64
22 Feb 2017, 02:30
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trouble recovering overwritten partition
Replies: 4
Views: 3879

Re: Trouble recovering overwritten partition

FWIW, I also tried increasing the sector count. TestDisk found the partition, but it thought it was corrupted (log: http://termbin.com/x6v7)... gah... :/

Why would recovery tools be having this much trouble? I've seen worse scenarios that somehow managed to have better results...
by refi64
21 Feb 2017, 03:54
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trouble recovering overwritten partition
Replies: 4
Views: 3879

Re: Trouble recovering overwritten partition

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. :( Still tells me that "stuff" couldn't be recovered. Here's the latest log:

http://termbin.com/ge1l

FWIW, I probably would've used PhotoRec and gotten this over with, but I have a lot of binary files with pretty much no identifiable headers (e.g. boot sectors ...
by refi64
19 Feb 2017, 04:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Trouble recovering overwritten partition
Replies: 4
Views: 3879

Trouble recovering overwritten partition

I don't feel that smart right now...

I have an external HDD with 3 partitions, the first of which was roughly 1.8 TB ("stuff") and contained a lot of important data. You can probably see where this is headed...

The other two contained a Chromium OS installation. Said installation wanted to "repair ...