raw drive 320gb only recovered 32gb

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tonytechie
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raw drive 320gb only recovered 32gb

#1 Post by tonytechie »

Have tried testdisk inially get error saying hard disc too small, then got partitions are unrecoverable error , read error.

then used photorec only recovered 32gb out of 200+gb, seems like it can only see small portion of 320gb hd, which was originally reported as raw.

Tried to upload my testdisk log file, but got msg saying not allowed.
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Fiona
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Re: raw drive 320gb only recovered 32gb

#2 Post by Fiona »

Please use testdisk 32bit instead of the 64bit-version.
Info:
Windows 64-bit Use only on systems lacking WoW64 as some features are missing
Your screen shot only displays a message for unrecoerable partitions, because they end after disk limit.
Please run Deeper Search in testdisk to have a try to find more partitions.
If more partitions are found, please mark them and press p to have a ty to list your files.
In your testdisk folder you'll find a file called testdisk.log.
Can you open it using a wordprocessor like wordpad and copy and paste the content into your next post?

Fiona

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