Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

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Gordo
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Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

#1 Post by Gordo »

Noob here:

Have a failed WD 320G connected with a USB disk converter. Host PC OS is MSW7.

TestDisk reports host drive capacity as 320G, which is correct.

But, it reports the failed drive capacity as 11227T.

Opinions?

Thank,

Gordo

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Re: Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Can you post the testdisk.log file content ?

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Re: Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

#3 Post by Gordo »

Thanks

/dev/sda is HDD0 in the host computer. It is the same model as the failed drive.

Console displayed a result for /dev/sdb that is not in the logfile. If helpful, I will re-assemble the setup and run testdisk again.

Thanks again,

Gordo


logfile.txt:

Thu May 15 13:10:54 2014
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, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-07-30T14:08:52
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=320072933376
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=320072933376
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=240944939008
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\D:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

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

Warning: can't get size for \\.\D:
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, S/N:2020202057202d44585731514241453036393135, FW:01.01A01


TestDisk exited normally.

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Re: Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

#4 Post by Gordo »

Bump, please.

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Re: Testdisk: Bogus Drive Info

#5 Post by Gordo »

Ran testdisk again. Log file exceeded 1M before I shut it down. I won't try to post it. I will look for a different utility. Thanks anyway.

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