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| Thread ID: 147893 | 2019-05-27 12:59:00 | Stuffed partition on 4TB External HDD | kioti (17360) | Press F1 |
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| 1461014 | 2019-05-28 13:58:00 | zqwerty… hi... I already had the TestDisk 7.1-WIP data Recovery app. Was firs one I downloaded the other day. Yried it and looked elsewhere. I am using it at this moment, working with the Stepxstep guide.... gotten as far as Search for partitions because it only found one and didn't show as it did in the guide. Have left the app running and see what it comes up with.... here are pics of the steps I performed and have left the app running. I used this guide : www.cgsecurity.org | kioti (17360) | ||
| 1461015 | 2019-05-28 14:01:00 | Pic of the Search for partitions, I think is what is going on at the moment | kioti (17360) | ||
| 1461016 | 2019-05-28 16:30:00 | after about 2.5 hours and its not looking good to me, though I know nothing. Somehow I think it is analysing the GPT Partition and not the unallocated space but I could well be wrong. A few secs ago it showed 01% done, I presume but that has disappeared from the interface. I am away to bed and will let it run see what shows. | kioti (17360) | ||
| 1461017 | 2019-05-28 22:53:00 | If this attempt fails why not try to repair the MFT? I have done it successfully twice before on two separate occasions with different HDD's after having made a similar mistake to you. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1461018 | 2019-05-28 23:09:00 | If this attempt fails why not try to repair the MFT? I have done it successfully twice before on two separate occasions with different HDD's after having made a similar mistake to you. zqwerty…. hi. might have to try the repair MFT. it is now 5.5 hours since I went to bed and returned here, the pic shows the progress since the last pic and it was as it is now as it was last night. Repair the MFT is the 'fast' way to do the partition recovery because everything is still there in the partition. All that is missing is the ones or zeros that make it visible (I think :D ) Here is a pic of TestDisk at 5_30am and again at 10am. More cylinders done no change. MFT is chkdsk? TestDisk does it www.cgsecurity.org |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1461019 | 2019-05-28 23:48:00 | I have never used chkdsk method to fix a damaged MFT but I did use TestDisk twice to repair separate HDD's with damaged MFT. How do you recover a MFT table? Fix “corrupt master file table Windows cannot recover master file table” issue Connect the disk whose MFT is corrupt and open File Explorer. Right-click the corrupt NTFS partition and choose Properties from context menu. On the disk properties windows click Tools tab and then click Check button under Error Checking. From here www.google.com .0j1j2j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i67j0i131.0eCuzep-SkM |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1461020 | 2019-05-29 00:46:00 | zqwerty thanks for the reply. I cannot find any repair MFT option in Test Disk app, working from the guide I posted link to. As for your advising "Connect the disk whose MFT is corrupt and open File Explorer. Right-click the corrupt NTFS partition and choose Properties from context menu. On the disk properties windows click Tools tab and then click Check button under Error Checking." The HDD is connected and does not show in Explorer so I cannot right click the corrupt partition and do the next steps. The 4TB HDD does show in Disk Management though but I cannot do any repair MFT in there. It may be that today I connect other external HDD's and check them to see if the data on the inaccessible 4TB HDD I have transferred to other HDD's and then I will format the 4TB HDD and have a 3.7TB Usable HDD. I think that I have most of the Media and Programs saved to other external HDD's but I will have to check before I do any formatting of the drive. Perhaps I can use the recover 2GB data available in Xboft for any docs etc that are in the 4TB HDD and then save them to another external HDD, then do the format and hopefully the 4TB HDD is again usable. Here are a couple of pics showing 4TB not showing in Explorer and it showing in Disk Management. thanks, I will now go read from the link you posted. |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1461021 | 2019-05-29 00:53:00 | Perhaps I can use the recover 2GB data available in Xboft for any docs etc that are in the 4TB HDD and then save them to another external HDD, then do the format and hopefully the 4TB HDD is again usable. Thats your best bet. Going by post #20 it looks like all the data is there just waiting to be recovered. So recover what you can. Here's some advise: :nerd: Don't piss about trying various methods, trying this that or the other, because every time you do it runs more of a chance of losing what was recoverable previously. A good example of that is had several customers drives, you have ONE go at getting their stuff back, after that the drives nothing more than a paperweight. One drive I had, recovered the data as I normally would from a failed partition, then tried to repair the MFT afterwards ( just for the hell of it) - it recovered but everything was gone, just an empty partition. Of course it was still there but would have needed the recovery software to get it. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1461022 | 2019-05-29 02:38:00 | The option for MFT repair is in the advanced options of TestDisk, I can't check as I'm on iPhone now away from home | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1461023 | 2019-05-29 03:14:00 | Thats your best bet. Going by post #20 it looks like all the data is there just waiting to be recovered. So recover what you can. Here's some advise: :nerd: Don't piss about trying various methods, trying this that or the other, because every time you do it runs more of a chance of losing what was recoverable previously. A good example of that is had several customers drives, you have ONE go at getting their stuff back, after that the drives nothing more than a paperweight. One drive I had, recovered the data as I normally would from a failed partition, then tried to repair the MFT afterwards ( just for the hell of it) - it recovered but everything was gone, just an empty partition. Of course it was still there but would have needed the recovery software to get it. wainuitech...yep I starting the connecting of external HDD's now and will do the search/check for the data on the 4TB is elsewhere and then do a format of it. Cheers. |
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