It seems I'm lost.
Posted: 05 Nov 2015, 05:55
I have a laptop hard drive that was running Windows 8 and suddenly stopped working. I hooked it up to a couple different Windows computers using both internal sata connection and an external enclosure, and in both cases the computers slow to a crawl when the hard drive is attached. The disk will show in My Computer but appears to be unformatted, and I can't get any additional info about the drive. I started trying to troubleshoot it using TestDisk and this is what I was getting for a partition table:
When I tried to view files on partition 5 (the main data partition) I would get an error about the filesystem being damaged or something to that effect, however I could view the files on the other small partitions. At some point I must have done a "Write" on this partition table and since then I cannot get teskdisk to read any partitions at all. I tried using PhotoRecovery since the only thing I care about recovering is photos, but after scanning for 77 hours nothing was found and it was telling me it had almost 1500 hours remaining.
I have a feeling this was something that could have been fixed relatively easy but now I've screwed myself over. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to save all my logs, but I do have a logfile from one of the times I ran it before writing over the partition table that may provide some insight. One thing I do remember is that I was getting the "The harddisk seems too small!" message that also showed a partition that couldn't be recovered that I believe was way outside the bounds of the disk size. From what I remember it was around the same size as partition 5, but I can't remember exact numbers.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Current partition structure:
1 P EFI System 2048 1026047 1024000 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 1026048 1107967 81920 [Basic data partition]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
3 P MS Reserved 1107968 1370111 262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]
3 P MS Reserved 1107968 1370111 262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]
4 P Unknown 1370112 2394111 1024000 [Basic data partition]
5 P MS Data 2394112 959852543 957458432 [Basic data partition]
6 P Unknown 959852544 960774143 921600
7 P Unknown 960774144 976771119 15996976 [Microsoft recovery partition]
I have a feeling this was something that could have been fixed relatively easy but now I've screwed myself over. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to save all my logs, but I do have a logfile from one of the times I ran it before writing over the partition table that may provide some insight. One thing I do remember is that I was getting the "The harddisk seems too small!" message that also showed a partition that couldn't be recovered that I believe was way outside the bounds of the disk size. From what I remember it was around the same size as partition 5, but I can't remember exact numbers.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.