testdisk device (how can I workout how to use this for my PVR HDD?)
Posted: 28 Oct 2025, 09:05
To repair a filesystem not listed by TestDisk, run testdisk device, i.e.
testdisk /dev/mapper/truecrypt0 or testdisk /dev/loop0 to repair the NTFS or FAT32 boot sector files from a TrueCrypt partition.
The same method works with filesystem encrypted with cryptsetup/dm-crypt/LUKS.
testdisk /dev/md0 to repair a filesystem on top of a Linux RAID device.
So what command line should I use for my faulty HDD?
Although I'm running TestDisk from my W10 PC, and the HDD is in my W10 caddy,
this drive came out of a PVR so its filesystem is probably not the same as Windows.
testdisk /dev/mapper/truecrypt0 or testdisk /dev/loop0 to repair the NTFS or FAT32 boot sector files from a TrueCrypt partition.
The same method works with filesystem encrypted with cryptsetup/dm-crypt/LUKS.
testdisk /dev/md0 to repair a filesystem on top of a Linux RAID device.
So what command line should I use for my faulty HDD?
Although I'm running TestDisk from my W10 PC, and the HDD is in my W10 caddy,
this drive came out of a PVR so its filesystem is probably not the same as Windows.