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wramp
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One partition containing 3 valid partitions

#1 Post by wramp »

Hello,

I have WD my passport 1TB drive which has been broken and its content cant be accessed. After runing 'analyze' several issues were found, here is log:

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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=122 sector=52
BAD_RS LBA=168624249 5967333
check_part_i386 1 type 6F: no test
BAD_RS LBA=1816210284 5822500
check_part_i386 2 type 20: no test
BAD_RS LBA=1953719666 1561108
check_part_i386 3 type 62: no test
BAD_RS LBA=2710306826 8440241
check_part_i386 4 type 0A: no test
Current partition structure:
 1 * Sys=6F               10496  95 25 120556 202 37 1768120654

Bad relative sector.
 2 * Willowsoft OFS1      113053 219 43 218809 160  7 1698966388

Bad relative sector.
 3 * Sys=62               121613 108 18 238009 119 17 1869902433

Bad relative sector.
 4 * OS/2 Boot Manager    168708 203 18 168711 253 48      51376

Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
 1 * Sys=6F               10496  95 25 120556 202 37 1768120654
 2 * Willowsoft OFS1      113053 219 43 218809 160  7 1698966388
Space conflict between the following two partitions
 2 * Willowsoft OFS1      113053 219 43 218809 160  7 1698966388
 3 * Sys=62               121613 108 18 238009 119 17 1869902433
Space conflict between the following two partitions
 3 * Sys=62               121613 108 18 238009 119 17 1869902433
 4 * OS/2 Boot Manager    168708 203 18 168711 253 48      51376
Next step was 'quick search', the result (see attachment) shows 3 partitions which seems to be correct (position 1, 3 and 4). And there is extra partition at position 2 which starts at the start of first partition and ends at the end of last partition.

I have read few tutorials of testdisk but I am not sure what should I do with these results. Any advice is welcome.
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Re: One partition containing 3 valid partitions

#2 Post by cgrenier »

You have to select which partitions to recover:
- partitions 1,3 and 4
- only partition 2
To know which ones are ok, for each partition, press 'p' to list the files.
Use the arrow keys to set the partitions to recover as P(rimary).. On next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit.

wramp
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Re: One partition containing 3 valid partitions

#3 Post by wramp »

It works again! Reading data and copying is extremely slow but works. Firstly I will copy all the most important data and then try to find out how to make it work like before.

Thank you very much for your help. I have been warned to always make backup.

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