as it seems that the quality of requests is decreasing over the last days I'd like to point out some things you should care about:
1. A request has to contain a question.
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2. Do not use acronyms. I am not familiar with your gamer talk. If you don't care about writing full words and being understandable why should I bother caring about your issues?geordielad007 wrote: ↑20 Feb 2021, 17:29 Hi Guys and ladies.
Bit of a background as to why and how I am where I am.
So I have a HP G6 pavilion laptop and one night my can of Guiness decide to pick a fight with the keyboard. I thought I was pretty quick to resolve the dispute by removing the guiness from the keyboard. Alas that was never to be the case. Everytime I clicked onto a dialoge window there would be a string of 3's appearing. So, I shutdown the laptop by the dreaded power button, as this was the only option. I then powered up the laptop and once again a string of 3's appeared in my password. So I closed the laptop down and decided I needed to sort out the keyboard. Looked on you tube and followed the instructions of the video. Disconnected the power, but did not remove the battery. Saw some possible Guiness contamination around power button components and cleaned.
The short of it is the laptop would not switch on.
So I went down the rabbit hole in search of my lost data. Fitted my laptop Hitachi 1TB HDD to my other laptop. However, whilst the beep gave an audible indication that it had been fitted, the drives were not shown in windows explorer; though the Disk Management showed it as a 931GB unallocated drive.
So purchased the EaseRUS and ran that, took pretty much a day for the analyses to complete. I thought great can see a load of important named folders and sub folders and named files. After saving a load of the folders, sub folders and files to an external hard drive, I could open docs, but they were all egyption and tried various ecncoders without success. However most noteably all photos and pictures were okay. I'm probably boring you now, but I then purchased disk raid internals and again I am further down the rabbit hole and looks like I have manged to now have readable PDFs, excels and docs.
But I wanted to go the extra mile and download the TestDisk software and it has been running for probably about 36 hours with 41% complete, not so much worried about that, as I have read some of Recuperation's posts.
I don't wish anyone one to spend a huge amount of time on this, but I do have a few questions, for re-assurance I guess.
1. Given the information below as a copy of the disk recovery at 41 % is this pretty normal, is it likely to be successful. My HDD partition was as I remember it
2. There is an extreme possibility that after I partitioned the drive in windows 7 and before the upgrade (which was/is windows 10 upgraded), that I deleted any created files in those drives,
without the experience or knowledge of the purpose fo those files/
C:\ approx 250GB
D:\ recovery
G:\ approx 300GB
H:\ approx 300GB
Analyse cylinder 6305/15199: 41% MS Data 8666092 48439531 39773440 em Partition] [SYSTEM]
MS Data bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
MS D6ta 621 920732 48981081 39773440
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
MS Data 6414800 11685840 5271040
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 2 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
MS Data 474142 474913 771 [Boot]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD))
ccheck_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
check_FAT: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (FAT) != 4096 (HD)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 2 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
WaMS Datanumber of bytes p84868096 234751743 149883648 [DATA]96 (HD)
MS Data
Any small advice or explanation would be appreciated
3. Select a good title (like in a newspaper) to give others a chance when searching for a similar problem
4. No whining! Do not mention "HELP!!!!" in the title and your posting. It is obvious that you are looking for support - if your posting contains at least a question (see point 1).
retrobob wrote: ↑07 Feb 2021, 03:31 256gb Samsung evo select
Balena said "Only the partition table was erased (it is the list of partitions and their offsets on the drive), the partitions are still there on the drive."
Balena said "testdisk is also available on Windows: TestDisk - CGSecurity"
After running Quick Search, both partitions appear in GREEN(* FAT 32 and P Linux)
I confirm WRITE with Enter, y and OK.
TestDisk displays You have to restart your Computer to access your data so press Enter a last time and reboot your computer.
I can now see file on my PC
I load image and start RPI3B+
Now I have a flashing cursor on my screen.
Image is supposed to autoexpand on first boot. Wait 3 minutes, turn off then start again.
Start up 2nd time and flashing cursor still there
I redo Analyse>Quick Search> both partitions appear in GREEN(* FAT 32 and P Linux)
I press (P) to list * FAT32, everything appears in white lettering
I press (P) to list P Linux, everything appears in white lettering, except -rw-r--r-- 1000 1000 554 3-Mar-2019 11:46 .ismount-test-file
unable to copy and move current file