Hello,
I'm struggling to recover important files on a friend's damaged HDD.
From TestDisk, we know that the boot sectors are bad or cannot be read.
Could you give us some advice on what to do next (see attached log) ?
The Partition we tried to recover is the following one :
Disk /dev/sda - 640 GB / 596 GiB - TOSHIBA MK6465GSX
3 P HPFS - NTFS 1917 59 4 155649 232 39 2469715515
Thanks in advance,
Phil
Partition with bad boot sectors (see log)
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Re: Partition with bad boot sectors (see log)
Try try Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write and confirm.
Re: Partition with bad boot sectors (see log)
Thanks for the suggestion.
It ended up however with bad sectors again.
We now plan a ddrescue to be sure to have a backup.
What would you advise afterwards ?
Regards, Philippe
It ended up however with bad sectors again.
We now plan a ddrescue to be sure to have a backup.
What would you advise afterwards ?
Regards, Philippe