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Hello community,

I'm currently using TestDisk with Quick Search to recover a partition, and during the scanning process, it has already identified the partition I'm looking for. As I use this partition for Windows program files, I want to restore it in its entirety. I'm wondering if it's safe to interrupt the Quick Search at this point or if I should wait for it to complete. Your advice on this matter, especially considering the full partition restoration, would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

You can interrupt the quick search.
Even if your desired partition can be made accessible by writing a correct entry into the partition table, there is no guarantee that its content is as you expect it to be.

You did not bother providing a case description, there is nothing more I could tell you.

recuperation wrote: 24 Nov 2023, 17:34 You can interrupt the quick search.
Even if your desired partition can be made accessible by writing a correct entry into the partition table, there is no guarantee that its content is as you expect it to be.

You did not bother providing a case description, there is nothing more I could tell you.

You're right, forgive me, I was cloning an external hard drive but I got the destination wrong. I realized after 15 seconds that the formatting was with the wrong destination...

UPDATE: I would like to add that the partition I was trying to clone was from Linux, and now I'm conducting a deep search to restore the NTFS that was there before Linux, if possible. The partition wasn't found with the quick search, so I'm currently performing a thorough search.