NTFS readable with partition type 'none', windows wants to format the drive
Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 20:31
I recently moved a 3 TB hard drive from a usb docking station into my desktop, which resulted in the drive becoming corrupt (in Windows, at least). Linux happily mounts my drive as a NTFS filystem (on /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1). Testdisk detects partition type none, and finds the NTFS filesystem along with all files. Selecting Intel/PC, however, shows the following output:
Is there any way to restore the partition table (I'm guessing this is the issue?) without having to copy all files to another drive (which I don't have, otherwise I would have done that)?
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Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
1 * HPFS - NTFS 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
1 * HPFS - NTFS 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
Bad relative sector.
3 * Sys=2B 113201 29 24 147074 114 59 544175136
Bad relative sector.
4 * SpeedStor 177063 118 26 177066 225 63 54974
Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
3 * Sys=2B 113201 29 24 147074 114 59 544175136
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
1 * HPFS - NTFS 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * HPFS - NTFS 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
4 * SpeedStor 177063 118 26 177066 225 63 54974