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After recovering partitions files are listed but not recognized

Posted: 09 Jun 2021, 21:12
by Glumov
Hello.
I tried to delete first one partition on a disk and then extend the second to the beginning of the disk.
Something went wrong, so windows started to see this disk as raw.
I made a deep search, testdisk saw both deleted and resized partitions. I checked that folders and files are listed correctly.
Then I wrote partitions to the disk. After reboot I saw both partitions, folders and files are on their places.
BUT!
Files are unable to open.
Example: my_photo.jpg is shown. But when try to open I got message like "this is not jpg file". Filesize is something reasonable.
Also for movies (.avi, .mkv), .exe files don't open too.

What can I do to recover files? It seems to me that master file table wasn't recovered correctly...
Any ideas?

Re: After recovering partitions files are listed but not recognized

Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 00:19
by recuperation
Use Photorec or some commercial recovery software.

Re: After recovering partitions files are listed but not recognized

Posted: 29 Jun 2021, 14:49
by Glumov
Finally I have to use Photorec to recover files. Most of them were recovered successfully.