Write after Analyse problem?
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 01:37
Hi,
My external WD Elements 5TB drive just died. I opened it, removed the drive, and hooked it up to the PC to see if I can retrieve the data. In Windows I saw the drive was listed as RAW. I had no idea what to do so through some tutorials I picked up TestDisk. This is what I did it using a live USB of the newest Ubuntu. I did not install the OS just booted from the USB:
I chose Intel partition (no idea if that was correct or not).
1. Run Analyse: I was able to see all the files listed after that. 1 partition. So I wrote it to the disk.
1.1. Restarted.
1.2. I tried to open the drive in a normal way. I found some files but some directories gave me a warning, when I tried to open them, that it could not display(?) all the files despite me being able to see all the files through TestDisk's Analyse.
2. Somewhere I saw that I should run Advanced - Boot. So I did. I was able to again see all the files through TestDisk but again I cannot see them all if I simply open the drive in Ubuntu and I still get the warning of missing files.
3. I ran Analyse again. Same result.
4. Ran the MBR Code command. Nothing changed.
5. Ran Analyse again. Nothing changed.
Never did a deeper scan.
Here is a screenshot I do not understand. In the attached picture at the bottom it says blocksize=4096, 2199GB / 2048 GiB. Why does it say that? I could not find what "Sector Size" to put.
My external WD Elements 5TB drive just died. I opened it, removed the drive, and hooked it up to the PC to see if I can retrieve the data. In Windows I saw the drive was listed as RAW. I had no idea what to do so through some tutorials I picked up TestDisk. This is what I did it using a live USB of the newest Ubuntu. I did not install the OS just booted from the USB:
I chose Intel partition (no idea if that was correct or not).
1. Run Analyse: I was able to see all the files listed after that. 1 partition. So I wrote it to the disk.
1.1. Restarted.
1.2. I tried to open the drive in a normal way. I found some files but some directories gave me a warning, when I tried to open them, that it could not display(?) all the files despite me being able to see all the files through TestDisk's Analyse.
2. Somewhere I saw that I should run Advanced - Boot. So I did. I was able to again see all the files through TestDisk but again I cannot see them all if I simply open the drive in Ubuntu and I still get the warning of missing files.
3. I ran Analyse again. Same result.
4. Ran the MBR Code command. Nothing changed.
5. Ran Analyse again. Nothing changed.
Never did a deeper scan.
Here is a screenshot I do not understand. In the attached picture at the bottom it says blocksize=4096, 2199GB / 2048 GiB. Why does it say that? I could not find what "Sector Size" to put.