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4TB USB HDD with sector size mismatch.

Posted: 06 Oct 2017, 09:14
by OldLady
Hi!

First, thanks from your great work and excellent program.

I bought an USB 4TB HDD, I format it with two partitions, 1st a 2.2 NTFS primary and 2nd Secondary + EXT4 1.7 Partition.

Seem the USB_2_SATA do a trick and use the 512 bytes sector as 4k or something like that, if I unplug the HDD from the enclosure and connet direct to the sata port the S.O (ubuntu) donĀ“t work because this mismatch.

I want to use the HDD direct to motherboard a put the enclosure to the garbage directly :lol:

I ran testDisk and it sais to me:

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Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 4096 (NTFS) != 512 (HD)
and there is the full log after 7 hours:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cac8a ... 3c8dcbbe5e

What is the best method to gain access to all my data?

Re: 4TB USB HDD with sector size mismatch.

Posted: 07 Oct 2017, 07:02
by cgrenier
After Quick Search, use 'p' to list the files from each partition.
If it works, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.