Recovering NTFS Partition from (partly?) quick-formatted drive
Posted: 17 Sep 2016, 08:31
Hi.
I dont know if this should be in here, or in FS recovery. Apologies if so:
I have here a 1TB disk a friend gave to me. It was his data drive.
He accidentally quick-formatted the wrong disk.
As soon as he got aware of his error he killed the pc.
Now the disk is detected as follows:
In Testdisk, the Drive and also the Partition seems to be detected okay:
In "Analyze":
In "Advanced":
Trying to list the files fails with error "Filesystem seems damaged".
So first, I go with quick search, and the deeper search, but it only detects some FAT32 Partition with wrong size and says the disk is too small.
The I can only go back to the menu. Going for "Advanced" in Boot Repair it says both boot sectors are bad. Trying to rebuild them fails.
Am I missing something?
I just started the process over from the beginning to get a clean log file.
I will append it here, as soon as its finished (will take some hours ofc).
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
I dont know if this should be in here, or in FS recovery. Apologies if so:
I have here a 1TB disk a friend gave to me. It was his data drive.
He accidentally quick-formatted the wrong disk.
As soon as he got aware of his error he killed the pc.
Now the disk is detected as follows:
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# lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MODEL
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MODEL
[...]
sdi 931.5G Hitachi HDS72101
└─sdi1 931.5G
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# fdisk -l /dev/sdi
Disk /dev/sdi: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7f99d2ff
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdi1 2048 1953521663 1953519616 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFATCode: Select all
Disk /dev/sdi - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done.
>[Intel ] Intel/PC partition
[EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...)
[Humax ] Humax partition table
[Mac ] Apple partition map
[None ] Non partitioned media
[Sun ] Sun Solaris partition
[XBox ] XBox partition
[Return ] Return to disk selection
Hint: Intel partition table type has been detected.
Note: Do NOT select 'None' for media with only a single partition. It's very
rare for a disk to be 'Non-partitioned'.Code: Select all
Disk /dev/sdi - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
CHS 121601 255 63 - sector size=512
>[ Analyse ] Analyse current partition structure and search for lost partitions
[ Advanced ] Filesystem Utils
[ Geometry ] Change disk geometry
[ Options ] Modify options
[ MBR Code ] Write TestDisk MBR code to first sector
[ Delete ] Delete all data in the partition table
[ Quit ] Return to disk selection
Note: Correct disk geometry is required for a successful recovery. 'Analyse'
process may give some warnings if it thinks the logical geometry is mismatched.Code: Select all
Disk /dev/sdi - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
No partition is bootableCode: Select all
Disk /dev/sdi - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> 1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
So first, I go with quick search, and the deeper search, but it only detects some FAT32 Partition with wrong size and says the disk is too small.
The I can only go back to the menu. Going for "Advanced" in Boot Repair it says both boot sectors are bad. Trying to rebuild them fails.
Am I missing something?
I just started the process over from the beginning to get a clean log file.
I will append it here, as soon as its finished (will take some hours ofc).
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
