I'm new here but I think testdesk gives me the biggest chance to get my data back.
I have a 4 TB drive that was filled 95% with data which I'm missing now. This is what I did:
Wanted to get the drive ready for a mdadm RAID 5:
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sudo parted /dev/sdx mklabel gpt
sudo parted -a optimal -- /dev/sdx mkpart primary 0% 100%
sudo parted /dev/sdx set 1 raid on
Okay that's all what I did. I did NOT format it, I did NOT add it to the RAID, no data has been written on the drive.
I started panicking... Downloaded several get-data-back tools, was able to restore 1.64 TB of data. I was able to see all files, all software I've tried only were able to restore these 1.64 TB. (3.64 TB - 2.00 TB which is MBR limit afaik = 1.64 TB hmmmmm... )
After this I finally downloaded testdsik. This program just did not came to my attention before. I've found a NTFS partition with quicksearch (I did not recognize that this NTFS partition was about half the size of the disk), was able to list all files, wrote it to the disk but after reboot I was not able to access the data.
Then I've tried to look at the boot sector.
Boot sector: Bad
Backup boot sector: Bad
-> Rebuild boot sector. Result: No access to my data. Windows now actually shows the drive, shows the one folder that was on it but when i try to access it, windows tells me, that the data is corrupt. Also windows reports the partition to be sized at 2TB.
I am currently running a full quick search to see if testdisk can find my original partition (I've calculated that this will last at least 35h).
What I've found out:
When I select the disk in testdisc, go to advanced it reports the following partition:
Now, I go on Type, change the partition to MS Data -> NTFS. Then I select Boot and it shows an intact backup bootsector.
What should I do now? Wait for scans? Restore this backup boot sector? Or will it get worse when I try this? Please help me