Data recovery on external aha dad
Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 23:14
Hi,
I got an external hard drive from a girlfriend of mine who basically potentially lost ten years of personal data.
I tried already a couple of things, but don't want to screw it up any further so I'm seeking for advices.
So neither Windows nor Linux could find any folders on the disk. Properties say that there is 400GB of data on it, NFTS, but no folders can be found.
So I hooked it up in testdisk, which could immediately find a partition but only display one folder that was present on the root of the disk. I run Ubuntu 13.10.
I tried to switch the partition to logical, noting happened except that there is now two partitions. The new one is not of NFTS type, but I can' recall the type and cannot access the computer anymore. Was not FAT neither.
Then I decided to copy what could be copied. I could save all the data that was in the visible folder, approx 150 GB. After checking with my friend everything from the folder was backed up.
250 GB remains unseen. Should I give a try with PhotoRec? Did I make it worse with testdisk? Something more I can try before PhotoRec?
Thanks for your help. I can post screenshots of testdisk tomorrow if necessary.
I got an external hard drive from a girlfriend of mine who basically potentially lost ten years of personal data.
I tried already a couple of things, but don't want to screw it up any further so I'm seeking for advices.
So neither Windows nor Linux could find any folders on the disk. Properties say that there is 400GB of data on it, NFTS, but no folders can be found.
So I hooked it up in testdisk, which could immediately find a partition but only display one folder that was present on the root of the disk. I run Ubuntu 13.10.
I tried to switch the partition to logical, noting happened except that there is now two partitions. The new one is not of NFTS type, but I can' recall the type and cannot access the computer anymore. Was not FAT neither.
Then I decided to copy what could be copied. I could save all the data that was in the visible folder, approx 150 GB. After checking with my friend everything from the folder was backed up.
250 GB remains unseen. Should I give a try with PhotoRec? Did I make it worse with testdisk? Something more I can try before PhotoRec?
Thanks for your help. I can post screenshots of testdisk tomorrow if necessary.