Recovering NTFS partition/data after Gparted freeze & chkdsk deleting orphan files index.... Help needed!
Posted: 20 Nov 2018, 18:03
Hi everyone!
First of all hello guys! I would appreciate any help towards recovery of my partition and getting files back. here's the brief of what's happened....
I run Linux Mint 18.3, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 (each of them on seperate SSD). I've tried to change partiotions size on 2TB WD Red (the disk itself is physically 100% without bad sectors etc.)
Previously there were two NTFS partitions 200GB and the rest - about 1,62TB. I've made first one smaller from 200GB to 80GB and after succesfull opeartion applied (in Gparted run under Mint 18.3) change to make second one bigger from 1,62 TB to 1,74TB. Gparted said that it's going to take a few hours, but the time extended to around 16 hours! I've left it overnight to do the job.
Next day in the morning it was running smooth with just under 2 hours to complete. I went for shopping and when came back switched my monitor to see that gparted and linux completely freezed. It never happened before. It wasn't even possible to move mouse cursor TOTAL FREEZE!
I've waited for another 3-4 hours and nothing happened (in the meantime hdd led light were totaly off). I've had to give it a hard reset.
Loaded Linux Mint and Gparted again and run check partition, but it freezed whole system after 30 sek....
So, loaded Windows XP and chkdsk started working on that 2TB disk. I've always heard to leave it and let it do the job, but never had "deleting orphan files in index..." before...
I did let it work for about 10-15 minutes, but had strange feeling that it's making more damage than good and pressed hard reset button. Unplugged hard drive and I've made a copy using HDDGURU Raw Copy Too into another 2TB Seagate brand new drive.
From that moment has been working only on the copy. So no more harm or any data overwriten....
Now! I've tried DMDE to recover partition and whole data. It could easy see directory structure and most files, but not everything...
And the problem is that even with correct name and letter full version some recovered files can't be displayed (.jpg, xml, txt, mp4 etc.) they not working (All of them have got a right file size and name and whole directories structure, but not working nor open).
Partition is still visible under Windows and Linux with correct name, letter and size of 1,62TB and most of the directories, but I can't enter or access any of them...
HOW I COULD RECOVER MY PARTITION AND GET MY DATA BACK???
WHAT'S THE EASIEST WAY OF DOING IT?
wOULD ANYONE HELP ME??
Many thanks in advance!
First of all hello guys! I would appreciate any help towards recovery of my partition and getting files back. here's the brief of what's happened....
I run Linux Mint 18.3, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 (each of them on seperate SSD). I've tried to change partiotions size on 2TB WD Red (the disk itself is physically 100% without bad sectors etc.)
Previously there were two NTFS partitions 200GB and the rest - about 1,62TB. I've made first one smaller from 200GB to 80GB and after succesfull opeartion applied (in Gparted run under Mint 18.3) change to make second one bigger from 1,62 TB to 1,74TB. Gparted said that it's going to take a few hours, but the time extended to around 16 hours! I've left it overnight to do the job.
Next day in the morning it was running smooth with just under 2 hours to complete. I went for shopping and when came back switched my monitor to see that gparted and linux completely freezed. It never happened before. It wasn't even possible to move mouse cursor TOTAL FREEZE!
I've waited for another 3-4 hours and nothing happened (in the meantime hdd led light were totaly off). I've had to give it a hard reset.
Loaded Linux Mint and Gparted again and run check partition, but it freezed whole system after 30 sek....
So, loaded Windows XP and chkdsk started working on that 2TB disk. I've always heard to leave it and let it do the job, but never had "deleting orphan files in index..." before...
I did let it work for about 10-15 minutes, but had strange feeling that it's making more damage than good and pressed hard reset button. Unplugged hard drive and I've made a copy using HDDGURU Raw Copy Too into another 2TB Seagate brand new drive.
From that moment has been working only on the copy. So no more harm or any data overwriten....
Now! I've tried DMDE to recover partition and whole data. It could easy see directory structure and most files, but not everything...
And the problem is that even with correct name and letter full version some recovered files can't be displayed (.jpg, xml, txt, mp4 etc.) they not working (All of them have got a right file size and name and whole directories structure, but not working nor open).
Partition is still visible under Windows and Linux with correct name, letter and size of 1,62TB and most of the directories, but I can't enter or access any of them...
HOW I COULD RECOVER MY PARTITION AND GET MY DATA BACK???
WHAT'S THE EASIEST WAY OF DOING IT?
wOULD ANYONE HELP ME??
Many thanks in advance!