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partition found but not being written or detect by windows

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 20:16
by technoman
Hello,

I'm trying to recover a partition from an NTFS external drive

testdisk finds the partition but when I go to write it and reboot - Windows still doesn't detect it

I am able to recover files for it no problem

I can browse the files in testdesk no problem

I do get a
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 4096 (NTFS) != 512 error

see screenshots:

Re: partition found but not being written or detect by windows

Posted: 03 Feb 2019, 10:49
by cgrenier
Set the partition table type to EFI GPT, Analyse, Quick Search. If your partiton is listed, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart.
Does it fix the problem ?