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Karto95
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Interrupting Quick Search Process for Full Partition Restoration

#1 Post by Karto95 »

Hello community,

I'm currently using TestDisk with Quick Search to recover a partition, and during the scanning process, it has already identified the partition I'm looking for. As I use this partition for Windows program files, I want to restore it in its entirety. I'm wondering if it's safe to interrupt the Quick Search at this point or if I should wait for it to complete. Your advice on this matter, especially considering the full partition restoration, would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
recuperation
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Re: Interrupting Quick Search Process for Full Partition Restoration

#2 Post by recuperation »

You can interrupt the quick search.
Even if your desired partition can be made accessible by writing a correct entry into the partition table, there is no guarantee that its content is as you expect it to be.

You did not bother providing a case description, there is nothing more I could tell you.
Karto95
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Re: Interrupting Quick Search Process for Full Partition Restoration

#3 Post by Karto95 »

recuperation wrote: 24 Nov 2023, 17:34 You can interrupt the quick search.
Even if your desired partition can be made accessible by writing a correct entry into the partition table, there is no guarantee that its content is as you expect it to be.

You did not bother providing a case description, there is nothing more I could tell you.
You're right, forgive me, I was cloning an external hard drive but I got the destination wrong. I realized after 15 seconds that the formatting was with the wrong destination...

UPDATE: I would like to add that the partition I was trying to clone was from Linux, and now I'm conducting a deep search to restore the NTFS that was there before Linux, if possible. The partition wasn't found with the quick search, so I'm currently performing a thorough search.
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