Toshiba laptop had black scrren with cursor, so I pulled the hdd and connected it to another computer. It wants me to format, and I cannot access. Disk Management shows 2 drives, one HDDRECOVERY (Healthy, Active, Primary Partition) and the other RAW (Healthy, Primary Partition). It also shows a Healthy EISA Configuration portion. I ran gsmartcontrol and it passed. When I run Testdisk Analyse and then Quicksearch, it shows 3 results (all in green):
* HPFS - NTFS ... [SYSTEM]
P HPFS - NTFS ... [TI106321W0B]
P HPFS - NTFS ... [HDDRECOVERY]
When I hit p for the second one, I can see pretty much all my files.
Can someone tell me what my next step should be to either recover my data or make it bootable again.
Thanks!
HDD RAW Help
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Re: HDD RAW Help
Please copy/paste the whole testdisk.log file.
Re: HDD RAW Help
Sorry, I'm a novice. Where do I find the log file? There is not one listed that I can see.
I did realize that I had not moved forward to run a Deep Search. I have started that and have received a read error at 200/135/6 (lba=3221510). It is moving very slowly.
Thanks again for any help.
I did realize that I had not moved forward to run a Deep Search. I have started that and have received a read error at 200/135/6 (lba=3221510). It is moving very slowly.
Thanks again for any help.
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Re: HDD RAW Help
As there are bad sectors, you need to clone the disk to a new empty disk using ddrescue as described in https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
It's not really for novice...
It's not really for novice...