Can't select external drive as destination with TestDisk
Posted: 03 Oct 2017, 03:04
I saw this thread on here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=938
And am experiencing the same problem.
My situation is a little different. Encountered a virus that rendered the hard drive unbootable. So I went over to Ultimate Boot CD and downloaded the files and got it working as a bootable CD. For some reason, Parted Magic doesn't run the graphic interface on the newer laptop the hard drive failed in, but when I changed things up just for grins and put the corrupted hard drive in an older machine, I got the parted magic interface.
No matter, because with both machines I can't get TestDisk to allow me to choose an external hard drive as my destination.
I know the instructions say to use the left arrow button to go back to select where I want to copy the files to, but it never lets me that far up. It only lets me back out to a list of folders similar to the screenshot in post #10 of the thread cited above. (I can't do screenshots at the moment.)
I know other people are having trouble with this, but why? And I can't do the "fix" the OP of that other thread reported about because I can't boot from anything other than a USB drive.
At the moment, I'm running UBCD from a stick drive in one USB drive and attach a WD passport to another USB drive. I've tried formatting the passport as both NTFS and exFAT to see if that made any difference. It didn't.
Also, I DON"T get the option as the tutorial on http://http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/P ... be_written page shows where it says it asks you to Select where recovered files are to be written and then get to pick a drive. It doesn't do that for me at any point.
I CAN get into the corrupted hard drive, the data partition and then see all the lovely files just waiting to be rescued... but have no way to actually do it. I don't want to clone because of the virus. HELP! THANKS!
And am experiencing the same problem.
My situation is a little different. Encountered a virus that rendered the hard drive unbootable. So I went over to Ultimate Boot CD and downloaded the files and got it working as a bootable CD. For some reason, Parted Magic doesn't run the graphic interface on the newer laptop the hard drive failed in, but when I changed things up just for grins and put the corrupted hard drive in an older machine, I got the parted magic interface.
No matter, because with both machines I can't get TestDisk to allow me to choose an external hard drive as my destination.
I know the instructions say to use the left arrow button to go back to select where I want to copy the files to, but it never lets me that far up. It only lets me back out to a list of folders similar to the screenshot in post #10 of the thread cited above. (I can't do screenshots at the moment.)
I know other people are having trouble with this, but why? And I can't do the "fix" the OP of that other thread reported about because I can't boot from anything other than a USB drive.
At the moment, I'm running UBCD from a stick drive in one USB drive and attach a WD passport to another USB drive. I've tried formatting the passport as both NTFS and exFAT to see if that made any difference. It didn't.
Also, I DON"T get the option as the tutorial on http://http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/P ... be_written page shows where it says it asks you to Select where recovered files are to be written and then get to pick a drive. It doesn't do that for me at any point.
I CAN get into the corrupted hard drive, the data partition and then see all the lovely files just waiting to be rescued... but have no way to actually do it. I don't want to clone because of the virus. HELP! THANKS!