Hi there
I recently accidentally deleted a partition on a data drive using the disk management tool in Windows 7.
I used testdisk to recover the partition, and now it appears in the Windows Explorer, showing the correct
disk space usage (about 1.2TB of a 2TB partition) but when I try to open it to view folders Windows throws
"Application not found".
My other drives open properly.
It is a primary partition, and the only partition on the physical disk. It mounts to E:, has the correct volume
name (same name it had before I accidentally deleted it) and is NTFS.
I have tried opening Disk Properties > Volumes > Populate, which made the volume appear on the properties
screen, but Windows Explorer is still confused.
Did I miss a step in testdisk?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
"Application not found" error when viewing recovered partition in Windows Explorer
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Re: "Application not found" error when viewing recovered partition in Windows Explorer
It might be necessary to run chkdsk before, but as you can't undo chkdsk, duplicating the disk using ddrescue as described in the manual is a safer way to go.