Page 2 of 2

Re: External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure

Posted: 08 Jul 2025, 14:20
by tops
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.

Re: External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure

Posted: 08 Jul 2025, 21:46
by tops
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.

Re: External Hard Disk - Partition damaged after power failure

Posted: 08 Jul 2025, 21:47
by recuperation
tops wrote: 08 Jul 2025, 14:20 Starting again the process, testdisk say to me that both partitions are irretrievable...
Both partitions?!
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.

Code: Select all

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
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.
Try any other commercial recovery software that supports ext4. If that fails, use PhotoRec.