The harddisk seems too small!
Posted: 27 Feb 2013, 14:32
Hi - I had a USB drive with a bunch of data on it. The external enclosure failed, so I borrowed a USB > IDE adapter and plugged it in. The drive came up inactive and RAW. Obviously at this time I know the best thing to do at this point would have been to grab a copy of the disk before doing anything else (with dd for example).
Instead, I initialized the disk and threw a new partition on there so I could use Recuva to try to gather the data. Obviously that was a mistake. Photorec did a better job and I recovered much of the data.
I´d stil like to get the partition back if possible, though. That brought me to testdisk. I see the following error when running a deeper scan. I´m really interested in finding out if that HPFS - NTFS parition it lists is what I´m after. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated:
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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /media/nabk/FreeAgent Drive/old.dd - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30402 255 63
The harddisk (250 GB / 232 GiB) seems too small! (< 2750 GB / 2561 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> HPFS - NTFS 99210 82 38 130994 123 22 510612528
FAT32 LBA 243107 18 39 334344 148 42 1465730599
[ Continue ]
261 GB / 243 GiB
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Instead, I initialized the disk and threw a new partition on there so I could use Recuva to try to gather the data. Obviously that was a mistake. Photorec did a better job and I recovered much of the data.
I´d stil like to get the partition back if possible, though. That brought me to testdisk. I see the following error when running a deeper scan. I´m really interested in finding out if that HPFS - NTFS parition it lists is what I´m after. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated:
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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /media/nabk/FreeAgent Drive/old.dd - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30402 255 63
The harddisk (250 GB / 232 GiB) seems too small! (< 2750 GB / 2561 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> HPFS - NTFS 99210 82 38 130994 123 22 510612528
FAT32 LBA 243107 18 39 334344 148 42 1465730599
[ Continue ]
261 GB / 243 GiB
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