what is the proper way to access a partition directly in testdisk?

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Kyopsis23
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what is the proper way to access a partition directly in testdisk?

#1 Post by Kyopsis23 »

long story short, I did a deep search (which took nearly 30 hours) and found the files I was looking for, but had a pc crash before I could finish recovering all my files and I really dont want to wait another 30 hours for the deep scan to finish

if I understand it correctly, I can add a partition manually, but this is where I am a bit unsure of what to do here

I see I need to enter the starting and ending cylinder, head, and sector, but the order of the numbers confuses me, I took a screenshot (also have info from log)

any helps appreciated

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Re: what is the proper way to access a partition directly in testdisk?

#2 Post by recuperation »

Please post your Testdisk log file.
Uploading a full picture to this site provides more information than posting a cut of a screenshot.

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Re: what is the proper way to access a partition directly in testdisk?

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Re: what is the proper way to access a partition directly in testdisk?

#4 Post by recuperation »

If you used that drive without any sector size manipulating enclosure you must have selected GPT when partitioning. Otherwise you would have been able to access only 2 TB out of 8 TB.
You ran Testdisk in MBR mode which appears to be wrong.

After the quick search you may enter the data of your lost partition.

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