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ibrokemydisk

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 2

HDD is broken after fail installation, unable to mount or read files

So i wad trying to install Arch Linux on my PC. I have a 500HDD with 5 partitions on it, i had a 30GB partition with Trisquel Linux, i wanted to format that disk and install Arch. Somehow i misunderstood the guide and created two partitions in /dev/sda, one with 2GB GPT disklabel, and other with 460GB space that was "free". I used testdisk tool to recover files, it somehow found 25TB of data using "Deeper search". However there was a 351Gb Disk partition, which is the thing i need. I had a lot of important data on it.

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Now i have a completely broken /dev/sda1. Im unable to mount it and cant fix. Gparted says this:

 ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x874655c4  size: 4096   usa_ofs: 50288  usa_count: 1606: Invalid argument
Corrupt index block signature: vcn 0 inode 5
Failed to open $Secure: No such file or directory
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

Failed to open '/dev/sda1'.

ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x874655c4  size: 4096   usa_ofs: 50288  usa_count: 1606: Invalid argument
Corrupt index block signature: vcn 0 inode 5
Failed to open $Secure: No such file or directory
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for ntfs file system support:  ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs. 

Also, i tried to fix it with ntfsfix, and i got this:

mint@mint:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x874655c4  size: 4096   usa_ofs: 50288  usa_count: 1606: Invalid argument
Corrupt index block signature: vcn 0 inode 5
Failed to open $Secure: No such file or directory
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... 
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x874655c4  size: 4096   usa_ofs: 50288  usa_count: 1606: Invalid argument
Corrupt index block signature: vcn 0 inode 5
Failed to open $Secure: No such file or directory
Remount failed: No such file or directory

What can i do? I really need that data, but if its impossible to recover it, at least i need a working disk.

Last edited by ibrokemydisk (2022-05-31 15:43:35)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 525

Re: HDD is broken after fail installation, unable to mount or read files

Unable to understand what you have.

What is the output of

lsblk
fdisk -l
#Or
parted -l

ibrokemydisk

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 2

Re: HDD is broken after fail installation, unable to mount or read files

What is the output of

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: ST3500418AS     
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: gpt
Disk identifier: B41F3783-072C-FF47-B815-0465FBDFEF08

Device        Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1  63685990 801220185 737534196 351.7G Microsoft basic data

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 525

Re: HDD is broken after fail installation, unable to mount or read files

Ok, it is a Seagate ST3500418AS 500GB Hard Drive, with 1 partition on it of 351.7G.
Start 63685990  End 801220185

What file system does the Microsoft basic data have on it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso … _partition
https://everything.explained.today/Micr … partition/

Was Bitlocker being used?

Make a backup of that partition. Copy it to and external drive. If worse comes to worse, you can stick that external drive into a windows machine and try and fix/read it.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: HDD is broken after fail installation, unable to mount or read files

Your easiest and quickest option now would be to just reformat the drive and restore the data from your last full backup.

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