TestDisk stuck at Search mft

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Kirangundurao
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TestDisk stuck at Search mft

#1 Post by Kirangundurao »

I have a bad harddisk and i am trying to recover the photos that I have in them.

The partition is shown as RAW in windows.

Testdisk identifies bad ntfs boot sector and when i try to copy the backup BS, it did not work.

I tried to rebuild BS, but testdisk was stuck at "Search mft" for more than 8 hours.

Please help for futher steps.

Thanks.

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Re: TestDisk stuck at Search mft

#2 Post by cgrenier »

If it doesn't work, you will have to try PhotoRec

Kirangundurao
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Re: TestDisk stuck at Search mft

#3 Post by Kirangundurao »

Tried photorec.

It was stuck at "Disk Identification. Please wait .." for more than 30 min.

I am connecting my damaged disk via USB.

Is this normal?

thanks

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