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Recovering a Partition/Bad Sector_Boot drive
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Recovering a Partition/Bad Sector_Boot drive
Newbie looking for expertise on use of testdisk to recover a partition on my hard drive currently accessible only with testdisk (windows chkdsk freezes at 4%), this is the main hard drive for my Toshiba laptop (win 10), which stopped working (Blue screen NTFS file error). I removed the HD in placed in external case in an effort to correct the corrupt boot file, I've attached a screen shot of what testdisk is showing me, I don't know where to go from here and don't want to do something that could further damage any files..help... sos...Ugh thank you in advance
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Re: Recovering a Partition/Bad Sector_Boot drive
D: is a partition of your disk. It's useless to search partitions inside a partition.
As chkdsk freeze, it may be because of bad sectors. You should clone your disk to a new empty using ddrescue.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf chapters "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk".
Once it's done, remove the damaged disk and try to recover your data from the clone.
As chkdsk freeze, it may be because of bad sectors. You should clone your disk to a new empty using ddrescue.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf chapters "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk".
Once it's done, remove the damaged disk and try to recover your data from the clone.
Re: Recovering a Partition/Bad Sector_Boot drive
Thank you cgrenier, I'm wondering if I can use the TestDisk: Repairing FAT boot sector to repair the boot file?cgrenier wrote:D: is a partition of your disk. It's useless to search partitions inside a partition.
As chkdsk freeze, it may be because of bad sectors. You should clone your disk to a new empty using ddrescue.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf chapters "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk".
Once it's done, remove the damaged disk and try to recover your data from the clone.
Re: Recovering a Partition/Bad Sector_Boot drive
or repair the Bad Sector?megster wrote:Thank you cgrenier, I'm wondering if I can use the TestDisk: Repairing FAT boot sector to repair the boot file?cgrenier wrote:D: is a partition of your disk. It's useless to search partitions inside a partition.
As chkdsk freeze, it may be because of bad sectors. You should clone your disk to a new empty using ddrescue.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf chapters "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk".
Once it's done, remove the damaged disk and try to recover your data from the clone.