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Hey, guys!
A couple of months ago I accidentally formatted my ext hard drive. Today I got another one and was hoping to get things going but couldn't make it. The formatted hard drive is NTFS and testdisk says
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>P FAT32 0 0 1 121601 80 62 1953525167 [NO NAME]
Structure: Ok.and when I proceed I get
P FAT32 0 0 1 121601 80 62 1953525167 [NO NAME]
Directory /
No file found, filesystem may be damaged.Photorec doesn't show an option to select the new ext drive as a recovery destination.
I checked a few win7 programs to see what they can do and 2-3 showed the exact folders' names and structure (which is important to me).
Any ideas how to proceed are most welcomed!
p.s. Found this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step and selected Intel/PC partition and now it's analyzing the partition structure.
Last edited by amaro (2015-11-30 15:17:57)
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What are you trying to do? Format the new drive? Or keep NTFS and store your files on NTFS?
If it's the latter, make sure to have ntfs-3g installed, otherwise you won't be able to write to an NTFS partition.
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I am trying to recover the files from the formatted drive. ntfs-3g is installed. The new external drive is also NTFS.
Last edited by amaro (2015-11-30 15:53:39)
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Here is the output of testdisk analysis
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 3922 GB / 3653 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> FAT16 <32M 106635 147 43 219676 135 51 1816002918
FAT32 LBA 153840 242 21 341839 12 53 3020189478
FAT16 <32M 220297 115 22 476942 97 48 4123000818Offline
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