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lost disk capacity

Posted: 24 Jun 2015, 22:42
by mardzie
help needed. I have a hdd 1 T, but the available space is shown by testdisk 33MB. testdisk shows two warnings - on the attached photos. whether it is possible to recover the remaining space and data stored on the disk?

Re: lost disk capacity

Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 06:45
by cgrenier
Change the SATA/USB/... cable. If the problem remains, use the disk utility from the disk manufacturer to check the disk capacity. You may be to "restore DCO", if you can't find such settings, use hdat2 utility.
Only use TestDisk if the correct disk capacity is detected.