Starting again the process, testdisk say to me that both partitions are irretrievable...
Should I give up on testing? Can I try something different from what has already been tried?
I confess that I am desperate and I didn't expect to lose this data.
External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure
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Re: External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure
Please, close this topic...
I'm going to open a new topic, putting as much information as I can about my problem, to see if you can help me.
Thank you anyway so far.
I'm going to open a new topic, putting as much information as I can about my problem, to see if you can help me.
Thank you anyway so far.
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Re: External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure
Both partitions?!tops wrote: 08 Jul 2025, 14:20 Starting again the process, testdisk say to me that both partitions are irretrievable...
What you said and presented (see part of logfile) is that there was only ONE partition:
tops wrote: 06 Jul 2025, 14:31 I have an external HD formatted in ext4, which, after a power failure caused by the local provider, lost several folders and files...
I ran testdisk and after some time scanning, it found some information, but when I tried to access it, it was not possible...
Finally, it suggested the test below, but I am not able to run it correctly.
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Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org> https://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/sdc - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 357698 64 32 Partition Start End Size in sectors Linux 0 8 1 357698 35 21 732566389
Try any other commercial recovery software that supports ext4. If that fails, use PhotoRec.Should I give up on testing? Can I try something different from what has already been tried?
I confess that I am desperate and I didn't expect to lose this data.