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"Application not found" error when viewing recovered partition in Windows Explorer

Posted: 03 Oct 2023, 19:08
by freehand
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!

Re: "Application not found" error when viewing recovered partition in Windows Explorer

Posted: 03 Oct 2023, 20:56
by recuperation
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.