The Harddisk seems too small

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chumps52
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The Harddisk seems too small

#1 Post by chumps52 »

Hi,


I'm new to this.
My PC consists of two drives:
A 250GB SSD for Programs and the OS, and a 1TB WD HDD for Documents etc.

I booted up my PC this morning and the HDD wasn't functioning (There was a powercut last night, I assume it interrupted something).
Disk management shows this: Image

I ran an analysis on TestDisk, which at around 60% came up with this: Image


This is the full log as it appears in testdisk.log:

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Tue Apr 22 09:58:11 2014
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-07-30T14:08:52
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=145200513024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=1000202043392
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\E:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\E:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\E:
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB, S/N:31534244534e4641313233393231205620202020, FW:EXT0BB6Q
Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD10EALX-009BA0, S/N:2020202057202d444d5754413052373333393139, FW:15.01H15

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WDC WD10EALX-009BA0
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63


test_FAT()
 1 * FAT16 >32M               0  32 33 121601  25 24 1953519616
sector_size  0
cluster_size 0
reserved     0
fats         0
dir_entries  0
sectors      0
media        00
fat_length   0
secs_track   0
heads        0
hidden       0
total_sect   0
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 06
Current partition structure:
Invalid FAT boot sector
 1 * FAT16 >32M               0  32 33 121601  25 24 1953519616
 1 * FAT16 >32M               0  32 33 121601  25 24 1953519616

Does anyone know what to do? :/
I need these files back...

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this was badly worded!

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Re: The Harddisk seems too small

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Run TestDisk, Boot, select the "FAT" partition, use 't' to change its type to 7 (NTFS), Boot,
if the option is listed, choose BackupBS, confirm, Analyse, Quick Search, if your NTFS partition is listed, choose Write, confirm, Quit
Please post the new log file if you have problems.

Mapy58
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Re: The Harddisk seems too small

#3 Post by Mapy58 »

Bonjour,
J'ai le même problème, mais je n'arrive pas à retrouver dans Testdisk vos indications.
Cordialement,

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Re: The Harddisk seems too small

#4 Post by cgrenier »

Mapy58 wrote:Bonjour,
J'ai le même problème, mais je n'arrive pas à retrouver dans Testdisk vos indications.
Cordialement,
Merci d'utiliser le forum en français ou bien postez en anglais.

Please use the French forum instead and provide all the information related to your problem.

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