My disk is a Toshiba MD04ACA400
- On a 4TB disk formatted GPT with 4 partition, today, it has come up not recognized by the system.
- It is a non-raid data-only disk drive
- Each partition is 1TB
- The formats for the partitions vary; namely NTFS, ext4
- It is not recognized by any OS
- In GParted is shows the complete drive as Unallocated; thus it does NOT show any partitions present on the disk
- there have been no attempts at writing/changing anything on the drive
- Gparted's Menu (Device>Attempt Data Rescue) running overnight does not find any partitions on the disk
- Running Testdisk v7.1 shows a "D" in front its 4 entries while also showing their extents
- It does NOT show filesystem types for any of the 4 entries
Decided to give analyze a try on the 1st partition that has the "D" flag in its column 1. According to my rough calculations, it will 9 more hours before its completion. Did I do the right thing?
Thanks, in advance, for any leadership.
EDIT: - Found this CGsecurity info, BUT, I am a confused by what is said for recovery of partitions with "D". I AM LOST.
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