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by thepirate
22 Aug 2017, 23:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Power outage when running TestDisk
Replies: 2
Views: 3044

Re: Power outage when running TestDisk


If you were running PhotoRec, you can restart it and choose to resume the recovery.


I was just using the normal TestDisk, I first analyzed the data. And then was copying the found files over to the hard drive. But the power went out after around 6000 files were recovered, but still was not ...
by thepirate
22 Aug 2017, 00:32
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Power outage when running TestDisk
Replies: 2
Views: 3044

Power outage when running TestDisk

So I originally had a power outage when moving a partition and that is why I was using TestDisk now. The partition had taken around 8 days and was almost done. I have since been running TestDisk for the past several days, maybe 7 or 8 also. I am not sure how close to being done, but it did recover ...
by thepirate
13 Aug 2017, 11:03
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?
Replies: 4
Views: 2357

Re: I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?

Sadly i do not have another drive that is large enough to hold the information being recovered.
Any chance this might work out? or is it pretty much not going to work when copying these files to the same filesystem?

The HDD is fine, its just that i lost the data during a power outage while moving ...
by thepirate
13 Aug 2017, 01:09
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?
Replies: 4
Views: 2357

Re: I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?

ok thanks for reply. before i saw it though, i realized my partition was unformatted. and that is why it was not showing up. so i chose to format and label it a letter. i guess this happened because of the power outage while the partition was being moving around. and after i formatted the drive, i ...
by thepirate
11 Aug 2017, 21:53
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?
Replies: 4
Views: 2357

I found old files from partition but want to just copy them to save hdd?

So I ran the whole analyze and it found all of my files! So happy. This is on a 2nd hdd where the power went out while moving a partition on it.
So I found the files and now it says " Please select a destination where / and any files below will be copied. I previously selected all files, but now ...