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by fredblogs
22 Dec 2017, 10:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0
Replies: 3
Views: 2567

Re: Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0

Oh, also here's the crash in 7.1:

Boot sector
Status: OK

Backup boot sector
Status: Bad

Sectors are not identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
$MFTMirr location mismatch or first 4 records are fragmented. Run chkdsk ...
by fredblogs
22 Dec 2017, 10:16
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0
Replies: 3
Views: 2567

Re: Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0

I see now that 7.1 was simulating write:

interface_write()
1 P MS Data 256 1220934399 1220934144 [5tb drive]
simulate write!

Whereas 7.0 was just writing:

interface_write()
1 P MS Data 256 1220934399 1220934144 [5tb drive]
write!

I don't think I did anything differently, and it wasn't ...
by fredblogs
20 Dec 2017, 09:36
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0
Replies: 3
Views: 2567

Testdisk 7.1 didn't work; use 7.0

I spent about 4 hours trying to recover my 5TB GPT disk using Testdisk 7.1.
I had "initialized" it when Disk Management prompted me to after a Windows 10 update - which was possibly a mistake.
Testdisk 7.1 found the partition easily and showed me all my files, awesome. But when I saved it, Windows ...