In time, I acquired several older computers. If I broke something, I would be up the creek without a paddle or a puter. Should I go ahead with trying to rebuild the boot sector? Then, maybe it will let me create an image.Īfter getting my first computer, I went for years not learning anything about what was under the hood. TestDisk thinks the filesystem is damaged. My first choice is to see if I can get TestDisk to show me my files. Any way, I would like to try Rich's suggestion if my first choice doesn't work. Maybe I damaged the chipset by forgetting to safely remove hardware. Most of those drive failures are the usb converter chipset which is a piece of junk and the drives themselves are fine. In another thread on this same drive Rich-M saidīefore you do anything take the drive out of the enclosure and try plugging it in normally to any desktop's sata ports.

Since it requests formatting, no matter which computer I connect it to, I now don't think it is a Windows issue. If I do, I will miss the opportunity to learn more. I could go ahead and format it, since S.M.A.R.T finds it in good condition. Now, that my data is safe, I can play around with the hard drive it was/is originally on. As far as I know, I recovered 100% of my data, and it seems to be in perfect condition. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.Since you have had such good luck with GetDataBack, I decided to try it. Question is, can I recover this partition or at least pull off some files? Is there any other method I can try? Would the following link instructions work? Ī run of testdisk on deep scan shows the following information: TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2017ĭisk /dev/sdc - 256 GB / 238 GiB - CHS 31130 255 63ĭ Linux Swap 29866 96 55 31130 223 5 20314112ĭ Linux Swap 30621 18 54 31130 190 36 8187904 I have tried to recover sda3 using testdisk and gparted but it does not detect the partition I am after. I only intended to overwrite sda1 but the install re-wrote the whole disk to one main large partition with a 10Gig swap partition at the end. What happened is I went through a clean OS install from a USB stick.

I have a SSD that was used as a boot drive that was originally split the following way: major minor #blocks name

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