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ext. HD showing RAW with all partitions bootable ? advice?

Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 10:58
by bosstang
I have an Seagate 500GB external drive that suddenly crapped out on me. How do i repair (make only one partitions bootable and resolve the space conflict between the two partitions? Also, is the Netware 3.11 partition suppose to be the bootable one? any help greatly appreciated.

here is my log file:

Mon Dec 23 04:28:34 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, MinGW 3.11
Compilation date: Jul 30 2013 14:09:04
ext2fs lib: none, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=8103395328
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\D:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.


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


Warning: can't get size for \\.\D:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\F:)=8103363072
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=4770630144
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\I:)=159915893760
Hard disk list
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 8103 MB / 7728 MiB - CHS 985 255 63, sector size=512
Drive F: - 8103 MB / 7727 MiB - CHS 985 255 63, sector size=512
Drive H: - 4770 MB / 4549 MiB - CHS 579 255 63, sector size=512
Drive I: - 159 GB / 148 GiB - CHS 19442 255 63, sector size=512

Partition table type (auto): None
Drive H: - 4770 MB / 4549 MiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Drive H: - 4770 MB / 4549 MiB - CHS 579 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=116 sector=52
BAD_RS LBA=218129509 5918957
check_part_i386 1 type 72: no test
BAD_RS LBA=729050177 1083631
check_part_i386 2 type 74: no test
BAD_RS LBA=168653938 1838434
Current partition structure:
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410

Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

Bad relative sector.
3 * NetWare 3.11+ 10498 56 41 10498 56 40 0

Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

search_part()
Drive H: - 4770 MB / 4549 MiB - CHS 579 255 63

Results

interface_write()

No partition found or selected for recovery

search_part()
Drive H: - 4770 MB / 4549 MiB - CHS 579 255 63

Results

interface_write()

No partition found or selected for recovery
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition

TestDisk exited normally.

Re: ext. HD showing RAW with all partitions bootable ? advi

Posted: 04 Jan 2014, 10:41
by cgrenier
Windows affects a drive letter to a partition, so it's useless to search a partition inside a partition.
When starting TestDisk, choose the PhysicalDisk, not the drive.

It looks like not all disks are listed: be careful to start TestDisk from an administrator account.