After recovering a 4TB Partition, Disk Management says "2048GB RAW"
Posted: 21 Jul 2022, 21:15
I accidentially erased a partition from my external hard drive. It's a Western Digital My Passport drive.
When I run testdisk, I first get:
Nevertheless, despite the error messsage, upon selecting "Quick Search", it finds the partition just fine:
It is also able to list all the files on the partition (which should be a good sign, right?)
The partition was originally 4TB. After I instruct testdisk to write the partition, it asks me to reboot the computer. I assume this is not applicable for an external hard drive, so I just disconnect and reconnect it.
Unfortunately, the partition hasn't been restored correctly. When I look in Windows Disk Management, it shows a partition titled "2048,00 RAW" and then 1677GB of unallocated space afterwards.
How can I restore this partition correctly?
When I run testdisk, I first get:
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Error: size boot_sector 7813705695 > partition 4294967295
Invalid NTFS or exFAT boot
1 * HPFS - NTFS 16 113 34 267365 202 36 4294967295
1 * HPFS - NTFS 16 113 34 267365 202 36 4294967295
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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 4000 GB / 3725 GiB - CHS 486397 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors >* HPFS - NTFS 16 113 34 486397 33 36 7813705728 [My External Drive]
The partition was originally 4TB. After I instruct testdisk to write the partition, it asks me to reboot the computer. I assume this is not applicable for an external hard drive, so I just disconnect and reconnect it.
Unfortunately, the partition hasn't been restored correctly. When I look in Windows Disk Management, it shows a partition titled "2048,00 RAW" and then 1677GB of unallocated space afterwards.
How can I restore this partition correctly?