WD Red 3.0 tb recovery
Posted: 09 Aug 2016, 14:46
Hello all, thank you in advance to all those who kindly reply to this post.
I am trying to recover as the subject suggests a WD Red 3.0 tb hard drive using testdisk and photorec. The drive was formatted NTFS using windows vista as one single partition. I first tried the testdisk on my laptop running vista connecting the drive with a sata to usb converter which was taking far to long because it was USB. my second option was to get an AMD machine repaired and run testdisk using a windows 2003 server install. This didn't work because it did not recognize the entire size of the drive only around 800 GB (this would be my perferred method so if i can make this work let me know). I then decided to use test disk under ubuntu that i could dual boot to using the same AMD machine.
when i run testdisk using ubuntu. it does not recognize the disk as efi gpt like it did under windows vista on my laptop and i have tried both intel and efi gpt under ubuntu. i cant figure out which is the correct of the two methods. also when it finally did complete this morning i pressed enter on what i thought was the correct partition and then highlighted the partition which i thought looked the correct size and tried to list the files but it said no files found. now what is weird is when i run photorec under ubuntu it sees the primary partition as EFI GPT and what looks to be the correct size. when i run it, is finding a lot of files that are on the drive. this tells me that the partition can be seen and the files are there. so why am i having such a hard time with test disk???
If you need to see the log file i can post one but i am rusty at ubuntu and don't know where to find it.
I am trying to recover as the subject suggests a WD Red 3.0 tb hard drive using testdisk and photorec. The drive was formatted NTFS using windows vista as one single partition. I first tried the testdisk on my laptop running vista connecting the drive with a sata to usb converter which was taking far to long because it was USB. my second option was to get an AMD machine repaired and run testdisk using a windows 2003 server install. This didn't work because it did not recognize the entire size of the drive only around 800 GB (this would be my perferred method so if i can make this work let me know). I then decided to use test disk under ubuntu that i could dual boot to using the same AMD machine.
when i run testdisk using ubuntu. it does not recognize the disk as efi gpt like it did under windows vista on my laptop and i have tried both intel and efi gpt under ubuntu. i cant figure out which is the correct of the two methods. also when it finally did complete this morning i pressed enter on what i thought was the correct partition and then highlighted the partition which i thought looked the correct size and tried to list the files but it said no files found. now what is weird is when i run photorec under ubuntu it sees the primary partition as EFI GPT and what looks to be the correct size. when i run it, is finding a lot of files that are on the drive. this tells me that the partition can be seen and the files are there. so why am i having such a hard time with test disk???
If you need to see the log file i can post one but i am rusty at ubuntu and don't know where to find it.
