Harddisk Seems too Small / partition can't be recovered
Posted: 27 Mar 2019, 18:21
Hello all,
First off, thank you so much for this great software and community.
I am of course here because I am in need of desperate help. My 1.5TB WD external HD was suddenly inaccessible recently. I don't know if it was coincidence but it could have happened after windows update.
After trying to get it to connect, I got the cyclic redundancy error. I could not run checkdisk to fix the error. I made a mistake by panicking and rushing to use EaseUS to try to convert the HD to raw format and my computer crashed at some point in the process. I tried running photorec to recover my images and it did recover a certain amount of files, but after 23 hours had elapsed, it appeared to stop/hang and then said estimated time was 559 hours or so. I then ran Analyse partition structure and it showed the first partition listed twice. Below is an image of the results after searching.
If I had let photorec continue running, would it have possible found more files? Is there a certain point were you would just stop letting it run?
Can anyone help with what action I should take next going off of the attached image? I'm so lost right now. Thanks in advance.
First off, thank you so much for this great software and community.
I am of course here because I am in need of desperate help. My 1.5TB WD external HD was suddenly inaccessible recently. I don't know if it was coincidence but it could have happened after windows update.
After trying to get it to connect, I got the cyclic redundancy error. I could not run checkdisk to fix the error. I made a mistake by panicking and rushing to use EaseUS to try to convert the HD to raw format and my computer crashed at some point in the process. I tried running photorec to recover my images and it did recover a certain amount of files, but after 23 hours had elapsed, it appeared to stop/hang and then said estimated time was 559 hours or so. I then ran Analyse partition structure and it showed the first partition listed twice. Below is an image of the results after searching.
If I had let photorec continue running, would it have possible found more files? Is there a certain point were you would just stop letting it run?
Can anyone help with what action I should take next going off of the attached image? I'm so lost right now. Thanks in advance.