TestDisk misuse: deleted all partitions because TestDisk detected them as such
Posted: 17 Jul 2018, 18:28
"If only the author could get 1 dollar for every time somebody misused its work..."
Well, not sure if this is purely my fault. Part of it is. I resized a fat32 partition using gparted and Ubuntu. I then returned to my windows but the partition was now "raw". I found about TestDisk.
I analyzed. I saved log on C drive, main Windows OS, where I was running TestDisk from. It showed partitions approximately like so:
Uefi
Windows reserved
Windows main
Linux
Linux user
Linux swap
My fat32 as raw partition
Another data partition
There were a couple more. Anyway, the weird thing I noticed was that TestDisk showed almost all as deleted. Except the uefi I think.
Well, I assumed it won't delete stuff I don't mess with, like gparted. So I just switched my freshly resized partition to P as primary instead of deleted, wrote and rebooted.
Assumption is the mother of all......
So, here I am. I wonder if I can restore from this bear-astrophe. I just left it do a deep search now and left home for a bit. It was showing something but not very encouraging. It got to 63% and was showing me some windata partitions (3 identical ones) and then 2 mac (why?!) also identical.
I did not write any data on the disk and I assume that I can recover the log file. Perhaps using that I could reconstruct the partitions via gparted?
As any user in my situation, I would be immensely grateful for any ideas. I'm offering a small financial reward (lunch or dinner size) just in the spirit of how I started the post.
Well, not sure if this is purely my fault. Part of it is. I resized a fat32 partition using gparted and Ubuntu. I then returned to my windows but the partition was now "raw". I found about TestDisk.
I analyzed. I saved log on C drive, main Windows OS, where I was running TestDisk from. It showed partitions approximately like so:
Uefi
Windows reserved
Windows main
Linux
Linux user
Linux swap
My fat32 as raw partition
Another data partition
There were a couple more. Anyway, the weird thing I noticed was that TestDisk showed almost all as deleted. Except the uefi I think.
Well, I assumed it won't delete stuff I don't mess with, like gparted. So I just switched my freshly resized partition to P as primary instead of deleted, wrote and rebooted.
Assumption is the mother of all......
So, here I am. I wonder if I can restore from this bear-astrophe. I just left it do a deep search now and left home for a bit. It was showing something but not very encouraging. It got to 63% and was showing me some windata partitions (3 identical ones) and then 2 mac (why?!) also identical.
I did not write any data on the disk and I assume that I can recover the log file. Perhaps using that I could reconstruct the partitions via gparted?
As any user in my situation, I would be immensely grateful for any ideas. I'm offering a small financial reward (lunch or dinner size) just in the spirit of how I started the post.