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Hard disk partition not found

Posted: 11 Jul 2012, 17:46
by jrcoop
Running Windows 7 pro 64bit OS. Had a data-only NTFS 1TB HD fault while copying a large number of pics (no backup – lesson #1 learned). The disk had disappeared from windows explorer so went into disk management and saw the disk … at this point I was presented with a choice of MBR or GPT to initialize the disk … and I chose GPT (it was late and I was not thinking very clearly … excuses, excuses). This left me with an unallocated disk, at which point I stopped to rethink my actions. After trying numerous partition recovery programs without success – they could never find the partition – I suspected that having the disk as a GPT might be the problem and used the DISKPART command to try and convert the HD to MBR, but that didn’t seem to make any difference. At this point I’ve come to the realization that I’m in over my head and need help! I’ve run TestDisk through quick and deeper searches and include some screen captures here. The testdisk.log is very big so I hesitate to copy it here. Looking for guidance on how best to proceed.
Disk 2 is the one with the problem
Disk 2 is the one with the problem
DiskManagement.JPG (137.35 KiB) Viewed 4327 times
After quick search
After quick search
TestDisk6.JPG (50 KiB) Viewed 4327 times
After deeper search
After deeper search
TestDisk8.JPG (82.66 KiB) Viewed 4327 times

Re: Hard disk partition not found

Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 17:58
by jrcoop
More info - here's the first part of the testdisk.log (as I said in the first post the whole log is very large - approx 311KB of text ... many many pages):

Mon Jul 9 09:11:46 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.3, Cygwin 1007.7
Compilation date: 2011-11-15T08:36:54
ext2fs lib: 1.41.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20100226
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=30016659456
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdc)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdd)=2000398933504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdi)=16231956480
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=30016659456
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive3)=2000398933504
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive4) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive4) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive4
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive5) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive5) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive5
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive6) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive6) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive6
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive7) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive7) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive7
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive8)=16231956480
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=297656123392
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\E:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\E:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\E:
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\F:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\F:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\F:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\G:)=0
Warning: can't get size for \\.\G:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=0
Warning: can't get size for \\.\H:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\I:)=0
Warning: can't get size for \\.\I:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\J:)=0
Warning: can't get size for \\.\J:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\L:)=16231940096
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\N:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\N:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\N:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\O:)=2000396288512
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\P:)=702544871424
file_pread(4,1,buffer,1953536129(121601/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,58637249(3649/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,1953536129(121601/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(7,1,buffer,3907040129(243201/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(8,1,buffer,31712309(1973/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, S/N:2020202057202d44435754413052323238303130, FW:05.01D05
Disk /dev/sdb - 30 GB / 27 GiB - CHS 3649 255 63, sector size=512 - KINGSTON SSDNOW 30GB, S/N:202020202020202030334d4330313942384d5a33, FW:AJXA0202
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD10 02FAEX-00Z3A0, S/N:WD-WCATR0289455, FW:05.0
Disk /dev/sdd - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - Seagate FA GoFlex Desk, S/N:NA0JB4XD, FW:0D0B
Disk /dev/sdi - 16 GB / 15 GiB - CHS 1973 255 63, sector size=512 - PNY USB 2.0 FD, S/N:AA00000000000485, FW:8192

Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WDC WD10 02FAEX-00Z3A0
Partition table type: EFI GPT

Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1
hdr_lba_alt=1953525167 (expected 1953525167)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=1953525134
hdr_lba_table=2
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
check_part_gpt failed for partition
1 P MS Reserved 34 262177 262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]
Current partition structure:
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
1 P MS Reserved 34 262177 262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]
1 P MS Reserved 34 262177 262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63

HFS magic value at 3783/202/35
part_size 134746242
Mac HFS 60786655 195532896 134746242
HFS, 68 GB / 64 GiB

HFS magic value at 17052/200/55
part_size 9256050
Mac HFS 273953034 283209083 9256050 [Ò±¥!^ù¿=&¬‡CD­>Ÿ
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HFS, 4739 MB / 4519 MiB

HFS+ magic value at 25609/20/60
part_size 1362456
Mac HFS 411409904 412772359 1362456
HFS+, 697 MB / 665 MiB
Unknown XFS version a

XFS Marker at 25953/250/1

recover_xfs
MS Data 416950695 30113567594258430 30113567177307735 [uzuh_XN?>:5]
XFS 6.2+ - bitmap version, 15418146 TB / 14022722 TiB
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=416950695, size=981857879, end=1398808574, disk end=1953525168)

LVM magic value at 36270/159/56

HFS magic value at 36723/17/60
part_size 810648194
Mac HFS 589956125 1400604318 810648194
HFS, 415 GB / 386 GiB
NTFS at 121536/70/6
filesystem size 3904892928
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
file_pread(6,4096,buffer,1958771711(121927/229/30)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,1958771711(121927/229/30)) lseek err Invalid argument
NTFS: Can't read MFT
MS Data 1952480255 5857373182 3904892928
NTFS, 1999 GB / 1861 GiB
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=1952480255, size=3904892928, end=1562405886, disk end=1953525168)

Re: Hard disk partition not found

Posted: 13 Jul 2012, 19:31
by jrcoop
Yet more info - screencaps from CrystalDiskInfo and Restorer Ultimate - which found 146 NTFS partitions, each one a different size and in total far larger than the 1TB capacity of the disk. Also found 81 HFS+ partitions ???

The disk had hundreds of JPEG images from an 18MP camera, so each JPEG averaged around 5MB - I could find some of them in Restorer Ultimate but was unable to preview any of them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
CrystalDiskInfo.JPG
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RestorerUltimate.JPG
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Re: Hard disk partition not found

Posted: 17 Jul 2012, 14:26
by jrcoop
Bumping back up in hopes of a reply - anyone???

Re: Hard disk partition not found

Posted: 21 Jul 2012, 17:16
by jrcoop
Please take a moment to at least tell me if there's any hope for recovering two years of my life in pictures. I'll gladly add whatever additional information is needed - though I've apparently used up my attachment quota in this thread. Really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a recovery service if there's a way to do this at home. Thanks.