Partition still not recognized after repair

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Rushkie
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Re: Partition still not recognized after repair

#11 Post by Rushkie »

recuperation wrote: 10 Mar 2023, 18:28 So nothing changed after writing the partition table?
Not that I can tell, except that I actually realized since originally posting that the partition I have screenshotted that is marked drive letter E: in disk management is actually only showing up/being created after I run testdisk. I originally thought it was always there after I restart, but if I delete it and restart and don't run testdisk yet it shows the entire disk unallocated. Once I use testdisk and try to repair the GPT partition and restart then that 2048GB RAW partition seen below appears, which obviously is incorrect still.
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Re: Partition still not recognized after repair

#12 Post by recuperation »

Don't forget to disconnect and reconnect that drive. Otherwise windows won't be aware of the changes.

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Re: Partition still not recognized after repair

#13 Post by cgrenier »

Your screenshot shows "Disk 4 Basic" but TestDisk has rewritten the partition table as EFI GPT.
If properly ejecting the disk/reconnecting it Windows still display the disk as Basic, check if an antivirus doesn't prevent TestDisk writing the new partition table.

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