Restore of NTFS filesystem
Posted: 14 Nov 2022, 12:46
Hi everyone,
I am struggling with restoring data from my external 4TB HDD, which was formatted as NTFS. Unfortunately, I unplugged it inadvertently too early, i.e. before the popup to be able to safely remove the drive (Linux Mint). The external HDD is no more mountable, neither Linux Mint nor Windows 10.
In Windows, it says "Nicht zugeordnet", with means "Unallocated" space. It shows two "partitions" of 2048 GB and 1678 GB. Originally, the HDD did not have any partitioning, it was a single partition with NTFS formatting.
Using TestDisk (Analyze -> Quick Search), I got the following information:
It seems like it is identifying the right file system and TestDisk is also finding my files on the external HDD 
Currently I am not sure, how to proceed. Can someone please help me with this? Do I need to do a boot sector recovery? Or what are the next steps to make the HDD being mountable again?
Many thanks in advance!
I am struggling with restoring data from my external 4TB HDD, which was formatted as NTFS. Unfortunately, I unplugged it inadvertently too early, i.e. before the popup to be able to safely remove the drive (Linux Mint). The external HDD is no more mountable, neither Linux Mint nor Windows 10.
In Windows, it says "Nicht zugeordnet", with means "Unallocated" space. It shows two "partitions" of 2048 GB and 1678 GB. Originally, the HDD did not have any partitioning, it was a single partition with NTFS formatting.
Using TestDisk (Analyze -> Quick Search), I got the following information:
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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB - CHS 486401 255 63, sector size=512 - asmedia ASM1153E, S/N:2109876543210
[...]
Partition table type (auto): None
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB - asmedia ASM1153E
Partition table type: None
Interface Advanced
NTFS at 0/0/1
filesystem size 7814037168
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 488377322
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
NTFS at 0/0/1
P NTFS 0 0 1 486401 80 63 7814037168 [HDD_name]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 4000 GB / 3726 GiB
NTFS filesystem needs to be repaired.
[...]
interface_write()
P NTFS 0 0 1 486401 80 63 7814037168 [HDD_name]
Write isn't available because the partition table type "None" has been selected.
Many thanks in advance!