EFI system
Posted: 08 Sep 2017, 04:51
I am trying to repair a 1 TB harddrive. Testdisk reports the following partition structure:
Disk /dev/sde - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Trying alternate GPT
1 P Unknown 2048 2097151 2095104 [Basic data partition]
2 P EFI System 2097152 2834431 737280 [EFI system partition]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
3 P MS Reserved 2834432 3096575 262144 [Microsoft reserved]
3 P MS Reserved 2834432 3096575 262144 [Microsoft reserved]
4 P MS Data 3096576 1934422015 1931325440 [Basic data partition]
5 P MS Data 1934424064 1953509375 19085312 [Basic data partition]
>[Quick Search] option is currently highlighted.
Running testdisk under Ubuntu linux on a damaged drive that is mounted as an additional drive on my computer.
It has been running the Quick Search for quite a while with nothing happening except for the drive light being on.
Following the instructions it seems to me that partition 3 is damaged as it appears twice in the list.
Does testdisk work on EFI partitioned drives? Does it recognize the MS Data partitions?
How long should I expect testdisk to run before the next stage in the recovery appears?
Disk /dev/sde - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Trying alternate GPT
1 P Unknown 2048 2097151 2095104 [Basic data partition]
2 P EFI System 2097152 2834431 737280 [EFI system partition]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
3 P MS Reserved 2834432 3096575 262144 [Microsoft reserved]
3 P MS Reserved 2834432 3096575 262144 [Microsoft reserved]
4 P MS Data 3096576 1934422015 1931325440 [Basic data partition]
5 P MS Data 1934424064 1953509375 19085312 [Basic data partition]
>[Quick Search] option is currently highlighted.
Running testdisk under Ubuntu linux on a damaged drive that is mounted as an additional drive on my computer.
It has been running the Quick Search for quite a while with nothing happening except for the drive light being on.
Following the instructions it seems to me that partition 3 is damaged as it appears twice in the list.
Does testdisk work on EFI partitioned drives? Does it recognize the MS Data partitions?
How long should I expect testdisk to run before the next stage in the recovery appears?