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galaxyclass
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deeper search: harddisk seems too small

#1 Post by galaxyclass »

Hi !

For some reason, I really don't know, The filesystem of my 2nd HDD chrashed while I performed a Secure Erase on my SSD in parted magic.

It's partitioned in 3 partitions, but while TestDisk gives me the chance to recovery Partition 1 and 2 it says even after a deeper search:

The harddisk seems too small! check for jumpers.

Is there still a chance of recover that partition ?
The HDD is in AHCI Mode. Shall I switch to IDE ?

Testdisk helped me so many times, but I'm afraid I lost my data really, this time. Without knowing what I did wrong......
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Re: deeper search: harddisk seems too small

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Run TestDisk, Advanced, select the NTFS partition, Boot, BackupBS, confirm, Quit

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#3 Post by galaxyclass »

Thank you for the reply!
I hope what I did was right (currently searching mft)
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#4 Post by galaxyclass »

What do you want to fix ? It's not my boot drive.
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#5 Post by galaxyclass »

I appreciate your help, but that didn t work.

Shall I try to extend the cylinder size to 63351 ?
But I'm really don't know what this could cause, and that's why I'm a little anxious :)
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Re: deeper search: harddisk seems too small

#6 Post by Fiona »

Problem already in the german forum solved.
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/post9292.html#p9292
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