Hi.
Accidentaly I wrote a short image (2 Go) on my 1 To backup disk. That might be the most horrible computer related mayhem I ever did, but since it's so big, I guess few things have really been lost.
But it was a "exFat" partition. I can't found the "Undelete" option present here and there on tutos, and using Photorec would mean losing file names and directory structure which would be a nightmare.
Is there a way to recover both files, tree structure and files names ?
Or at least file names ?
can I and how, compilate testdisk to recover lost EXFAT partition ?
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can I and how, compilate testdisk to recover lost EXFAT partition ?
Last edited by sentinel166 on 02 Aug 2019, 17:39, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: can I and how, compilate testdisk to recover lost EXFAT partition ?
At first glance the "lost partitions" it finds are:
1 E extended LBA 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
5 L HPFS - NTFS 0 1 2 121600 254 63 1953520001
which I have no clues what they are since I never formatted in NTFS. I'm way too much scared of "write"-ing this list on the disk, since I have no clue what it will be doing.
I'm running "deeper search" and will tell you if something appears which makes more sense.
1 E extended LBA 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
5 L HPFS - NTFS 0 1 2 121600 254 63 1953520001
which I have no clues what they are since I never formatted in NTFS. I'm way too much scared of "write"-ing this list on the disk, since I have no clue what it will be doing.
I'm running "deeper search" and will tell you if something appears which makes more sense.
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Re: can I and how, compilate testdisk to recover lost EXFAT partition ?
Testdisk can recover lost EXFAT partitions:Re: can I and how, compilate testdisk to recover lost EXFAT partition ?
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
What did you do exactly?sentinel166 wrote: ↑02 Aug 2019, 17:36 Accidentaly I wrote a short image (2 Go) on my 1 To backup disk.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdfI can't found the "Undelete" option
Based on your description one has to guess that you have overwritten your FAT completely.Is there a way to recover both files, tree structure and files names ?
Or at least file names ?
Photorec is your only option.
The area that has not been affected could contain subdirectory information, tree information, file names and a pointer to the first used cluster. You would have to carve across the disk to find those parts.
I doubt that either Testdisk or Photorec currently does that.
It would be necessary to tell a programm to interpret data "exfat" style.