Partitions can't be found, data is there with photorec
Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 18:18
Hi all,
Not sure how it happened, but my partition table was lost for one of my hard drives. I know the data is there as I've run photorec and it found my files. I've got them in a new hard drive, but they are all recovered with sequential file names. I still hope I can fix the partition table and not have to sort them out.
For jpg files I've used some scripts adapted from http://sid.rstack.org/static/articles/d ... situations so they are ordered by date.
My 1TB hard drive had some "system reserved" partitions and then 3 partitions I used: 1st one was for Windows, 2 others for data. I'm not sure about their sizes. I'd say they were FAT32 to share data between linux and windows, but I'm not completely sure right now.
Both search and deep search returned the following results:
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>* HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 12 223 19 204800 [Reservado para el sistema]
P HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 2610 245 3 41738240
P FAT32 65652 1 1 121221 254 63 892731987
But when I tried P to list the files in the second partition, it crashed and exited testsdisk.
Full log is here: http://pastebin.com/3BHMj7AN (I can't attach .txt or .log)
Any idea on how to recover the files? Is it possible to treat full disk as FAT32 or the partition format would not allow it? I don't know the internals of the partition filesystem, I'm just guessing.
Thanks in advance,
Jorge
Not sure how it happened, but my partition table was lost for one of my hard drives. I know the data is there as I've run photorec and it found my files. I've got them in a new hard drive, but they are all recovered with sequential file names. I still hope I can fix the partition table and not have to sort them out.
For jpg files I've used some scripts adapted from http://sid.rstack.org/static/articles/d ... situations so they are ordered by date.
My 1TB hard drive had some "system reserved" partitions and then 3 partitions I used: 1st one was for Windows, 2 others for data. I'm not sure about their sizes. I'd say they were FAT32 to share data between linux and windows, but I'm not completely sure right now.
Both search and deep search returned the following results:
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>* HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 12 223 19 204800 [Reservado para el sistema]
P HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 2610 245 3 41738240
P FAT32 65652 1 1 121221 254 63 892731987
But when I tried P to list the files in the second partition, it crashed and exited testsdisk.
Full log is here: http://pastebin.com/3BHMj7AN (I can't attach .txt or .log)
Any idea on how to recover the files? Is it possible to treat full disk as FAT32 or the partition format would not allow it? I don't know the internals of the partition filesystem, I'm just guessing.
Thanks in advance,
Jorge