Recovery of a PVR fat32 Disk
Posted: 06 Aug 2012, 14:37
I have searched for the answer to this and so far have had no luck
Can testdisk use non standard sector and cluster sizes when searching a fat32 disk?
I have a corrupted 500GB western digital drive (it appears they have low tolerance to heat)
The drive is from a "beyonwiz" PVR
it uses a Cluster size of 512Kb
and a Sector size of 4096
It is recognised as a Fat32 LBA
After setting the sector size to 4096 and then analysing I get this
After the analysis run (no to vista) No partition is found
What more can I do?
I am currently running fsck on a dd_rescue image of the disk but it is faltering on
As you can see I am up to 9823 files. I am concerned its going to rename every file on the disk making it impossible for me to restore it
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
DC
Can testdisk use non standard sector and cluster sizes when searching a fat32 disk?
I have a corrupted 500GB western digital drive (it appears they have low tolerance to heat)
The drive is from a "beyonwiz" PVR
it uses a Cluster size of 512Kb
and a Sector size of 4096
It is recognised as a Fat32 LBA
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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 7601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> 1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 60800 254 63 976768002
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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 7601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid FAT boot sector
1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 60800 254 63 976768002
1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 60800 254 63 976768002
No partition is bootable
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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 7601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
No partition found or selected for recovery
I am currently running fsck on a dd_rescue image of the disk but it is faltering on
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Bad short file name (�@&!@Q*\200.L4\227).
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to FSCK0009.823
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
DC