My SSD died, luckily I had all my data in another drive. That drive is still alive.
Unluckily, I resized that drive in the past and it is not in a normal format.
Using a fedora live distro, I managed to check in gparted and the drive contain 3 partitions, a "microsoft LDM metada" (small), "unknown" (small) and "microsoft LDM data" (large).
Now fedora is able to see 1 of the two partitions, I think it is able to see the one that I didn't resize. So I will be copying the data of that partition to an external drive.
Is there any chance that TestDisk would be able to help me? I try to search for "LDM" in the manual and have not found anything.
If it is a no, do you have experience or any suggestion on what to do (even if it is to check other forum)?
Thank you.
PS: I can provide more info if needed.
Can TestDisk help me recover a LDM partition
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Re: Can TestDisk help me recover a LDM partition
Only if you lost a partition Testdisk might find it. As for the content of this undocumented and proprietary Microsoft type of partitions Testdisk can't help.Sphere76 wrote: 14 Jun 2023, 08:57 My SSD died, luckily I had all my data in another drive. That drive is still alive.
Unluckily, I resized that drive in the past and it is not in a normal format.
Using a fedora live distro, I managed to check in gparted and the drive contain 3 partitions, a "microsoft LDM metada" (small), "unknown" (small) and "microsoft LDM data" (large).
Now fedora is able to see 1 of the two partitions, I think it is able to see the one that I didn't resize. So I will be copying the data of that partition to an external drive.
Is there any chance that TestDisk would be able to help me?
You can read a few articles on LDM in this forum:I try to search for "LDM" in the manual and have not found anything.
search.php?keywords=ldm
I don't have any experience with LDM. If you are reposting your question somewhere else, you might consider posting a picture instead of the following text:If it is a no, do you have experience or any suggestion on what to do (even if it is to check other forum)?
Thank you.
PS: I can provide more info if needed.
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Using a fedora live distro, I managed to check in gparted and the drive contain 3 partitions, a "microsoft LDM metada" (small), "unknown" (small) and "microsoft LDM data" (large).
Now fedora is able to see 1 of the two partitions, I think it is able to see the one that I didn't resize. So I will be copying the data of that partition to an external drive.
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First there are three partitions, then there are only two of them but you don't say whose data is readable.
Your text should be written in a way that does not allow for interpretation of your words.