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1. The GPT disk to recover contained 5 veracrypt encrypted data partitions. the partitions were created with minitool partition wizard and later formatted/encrypted using veracrypt. partitions had the following sizes:
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sdd1: 700GB
sdd2: 700GB
sdd3: 1900GB
sdd4: 350GB
sdd5: 76.02GB
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Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sdd1...
Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sdd2...
Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sdd3...
Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sdd4...
/dev/sdd4: 4 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001c6 (atari): b9 d3 d8 fa
Clean filesystem header in device /dev/sdd5...
Trying to clean the MBR and GPT partition table on the destination disk first: /dev/sdd
Informing the OS of partition table changes... done !
Non-grub bootloader found on /tmp/sdc-rolling-backup-tmp-cnvted/sdd-mbr...
The CHS value of hard drive from EDD will be used for sfdisk.
Sfdisk >= 2.26 does not support C/H/S option. Skip using C/H/S option.
Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label
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Tue Jan 7 14:36:24 UTC 2020
Writing the partition table...
No partition table exists in target disk /dev/sdd, try to initialize one so that we can get the disk
size by parted... Running: parted -s /dev/sdd mklabel msdos
done !
Warning!! Destination disk (/dev/sdd) size is 4.00TB, which is larger than the MBR partition table
entry maximum 2 TiB (~2.2 TB). You have to use GUID partition table format (GPT).
Press "Enter" to continue......
[Panic rebooted here]
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a. full format brand new disk
b. create 5 partitions with minitool partition wizard (quick formatted if at all)
c. veracrypt volumes created with quick format
d. mount volume and copy data
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sdd1: 4096
sdd2: 1468008448
sdd3: 2936014848
sdd4: 6920603648
sdd5: 7654606848
- the disk is currently in MBR mode. If i try to initialize to GPT, minitool forces me to create a 128MB partition. this partition did not exist on sdd as it was promptly deleted after creation (when originally setting up the partitions on the disk).
- minitool does not allow specifying start and end sectors.
I'm positive i can do this with testdisk but don't know how. Can someone help me finish? Also note that i'm working on a cloned copy of the disk to recover created with ddrescue/knoppix.