2TB Internal Drive Showing Empty

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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JackBenson
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2TB Internal Drive Showing Empty

#1 Post by JackBenson »

Hello,

I'm running a Slackware Linux system.

I turned my computer on today, and my internal 2TB drive is showing no data.

When I run testdisk /dev/sda and proceed through the steps, the 1st partition shows twice, along with partition 2 which contains my data. When I run a deeper search, I get errors regarding Bad jump in FAT partition and Bad number of sectors per cluster.

Am I looking at real data loss, or does this just sound like a partition table error?

Thank you in advance.

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Re: 2TB Internal Drive Showing Empty

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Without the testdisk.log file, it's difficult to understand the problem...
The partition table may be ok but the filesystem of the first partition is corrupted.

Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf and post more information relevant to your problem if you need help

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