Cant recover formatted partition, strange freebsd partition
Posted: 25 Nov 2015, 15:47
Hello everyone. I've got a problem with a partition and all my data is lost.
I accidently formatted it. The partition has a ext4 filesystem and after that format nothing's been written over, or at least i think so. This happend during a OS installation and fortunately i aborted before the installer start writing data, but unfortunately after or during the format process of that partition.
Since i didn't succeed with testdisk i tryed with photorec, and it started recovering a lot of files, but i realized that it was a mess because the directory structure and the names of the files are simply forgetten, its a mess, its my last choice.
I thought...well, if i can recover with photorec, why not giving another chance to testdisk, and here i am.
I runned testdisk from a Live USB OS and folled the normal procedure:
-Created a new log.
-Selected a hard disk.
-Selected an intel type partition.
-Selected the Analyse option.
-Detected all the partitions correctly
-Did a quick Search
-Selected the partition that matches the one i want.
-This appears.
I realized my testdisk version was old, so i downloaded the last version, thats why the previus screenshots are from a previous version.
-Deep Search and after a while, selected the partition.
-Hit p and shows no content
-Other partitions can be recovered, i can even see files from 2013.
-So, i think there must be some problem with that FreeBsd partition that appears at the bottom, it has no sense at all, it has like thousand of terabytes of size. I've never created that partition, dont use that type of filesystems.
What do you think?
Hope you can help me, thank you all.
I accidently formatted it. The partition has a ext4 filesystem and after that format nothing's been written over, or at least i think so. This happend during a OS installation and fortunately i aborted before the installer start writing data, but unfortunately after or during the format process of that partition.
Since i didn't succeed with testdisk i tryed with photorec, and it started recovering a lot of files, but i realized that it was a mess because the directory structure and the names of the files are simply forgetten, its a mess, its my last choice.
I thought...well, if i can recover with photorec, why not giving another chance to testdisk, and here i am.
I runned testdisk from a Live USB OS and folled the normal procedure:
-Created a new log.
-Selected a hard disk.
-Selected an intel type partition.
-Selected the Analyse option.
-Detected all the partitions correctly
-Did a quick Search
-Selected the partition that matches the one i want.
-This appears.
I realized my testdisk version was old, so i downloaded the last version, thats why the previus screenshots are from a previous version.
-Deep Search and after a while, selected the partition.
-Hit p and shows no content
-Other partitions can be recovered, i can even see files from 2013.
-So, i think there must be some problem with that FreeBsd partition that appears at the bottom, it has no sense at all, it has like thousand of terabytes of size. I've never created that partition, dont use that type of filesystems.
What do you think?
Hope you can help me, thank you all.