Going through the the TestDisk process
Posted: 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
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