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crickets?

Just curious if you're aware of a way to fix the exfat FS that's corrupt and it doesn't show up as a volume in windows and Linux tools fail to fix the issue with a VBR error (let me know if you'd like to see the actual error). Truly frustrating.

I purchased another 5TB drive and am currently running an image creation from the broken filesystem to the new disk. Once that is done, I'm going to attempt to fix the broken filesystem...just not sure how to do that part yet. I attempted to chkdsk the raw volume, but windows isn't reporting it at ...

For the boot issue where the backup boot sector did not match the boot sector, I chose to copy the bootsector over the backup and now they are identical.

I misspoke a little. So as I mentioned, I get a list of my files. I decided to drill down into the directories and I found two where testdisk was ...

I get a list of my files all nice and pretty when I go with None, Advanced, List. For boot, I get

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2017
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 5000 GB / 4657 GiB - CHS 608001 255 63
Partition Start End ...

I'm not sure why this happened, but I know what I did and now I'm trying to recover from it. Perhaps you wouldn't mind assisting:

I have a 5TB external zero-partition drive formatted to exfat in Linux (mke2fs.exfat /dev/sdb) which worked fine under Linux on macbook running Ubuntu 14.04. A few weeks ...