1/7/2024 0 Comments Testdisk none partition![]() What is the model number of this WD drive and its actual specified capacity? Do you have any bare external enclosure that can handle this 6TB drive?Ħ. Do you have another PC to which you can internally connect this particular drive and other bare drives atleast one at a time?Ħ. Have you checked whether those other bare drives work fine in the Startech rack?ĥ. What is the file system in the other bare drives?Ĥ. Was it used in the same Startech Hotswap trayless rack the last time and it worked fine?ģ. Do you know what was the file system? anything other than NTFS?Ģ. Now in your case the fact that TestDisk does not show the command but highlights indicates that it does not find anything NTFS and asks you to select the Partition Type.ġ. Volume Boot record at Partition start sector 32768īackup of Volume Boot Sector at Partition end sector 9767538687 Its backup will be in the end sector of the partition. The start sector should contain the Volume Boot record. The start sector is 32768 End Sector of the partition is 9767538687 ( as read from the above screenshot). To be self contained I repeat the screenshot here. I deleted the original NTFS volume in it, created a new volume encompassing the whole drive and reformatted it as a GPT drive (NTFS). The screenshot which I posted in post #7, is my 5TB Seagate external drive. You will not be able to boot into that partition. If it does not find a valid boot record in the first sector of the partition, the partition is not accessible. If it finds a valid Volume Boot record present in the start sector of the partition, your partition is accessed. When you want to access the partition, the OS reads the start sector from the partition table and jumps to it. When you format the drive usually as NTFS, the file system is written - in simple words a Volume boot record also called as Partition Boot record is written into the first sector of the partition. ![]() When you create a volume, a partition table which defines the start and end sectors of the volume is written - in your case in Sector 2. Do not mistake the Volume Boot Record with system boot. That is what we are trying to find and correct ( if possible) in OP's case. Thousands of users had performed Partition Recovery without losing their data, and one tree does not make a wood.įile system corruption can make a disk/ partition RAW. Partition recovery did not corrupt your files.ĭo not make universal statements based on your singular experience. So you know why your files got corrupted and why it happened again- a failing hard drive. It does not write anything in the data area. It does not do anything to data in the drive. The Partition Recovery software scans the drive, reads the volume boot records at the start sector of each partition/s and rewrites the partition table in sector 0 or sector 2 to 33 as the case may be. Do you know why partitions are lost? And what happens when you recover partitions? Listen : If the partition table/s in sector 0 ( in MBR disk) or the partition table/s in Sector 2 and subsequent 31 sectors in a GPT disk, get/s corrupted, the partition/s become/s RAW. Your files got corrupted due to other reasons - a failing drive. It was not partition recovery that corrupted your files. We know the partition exists by virtue of the fact it has a drive letter G.Ģ. As aforesaid, we are not not attempting Partition recovery. after using partition recovery on a raw drive, my files became corrupt."ġ. If the Volume boot record is bad or the MFT is corrupted the partition can become RAW. TestDisk merely read the Partition Tables in sector 2 ( GPT Disk) and has presented the two existing partitions (MSR and Data) and we are trying to find the status of the Volume Boot Record at the start sector of the Data Partition. We have not performed any Partition Recovery operations. ( As you can see TestDisk shows two partitions one MSR and one Data partition. Why are you bringing in Partition Recovery and your experience with Partition Recovery? Totally irrelevant. OP's Drive has a drive letter G: and hence no partition was lost and so there is absolutely no need for Partition Recovery. If you had cared to read the previous posts, I had told that it is not a partition lost problem. Your post is not relevant to the OP's problem. "your post didn't appear to be relevant to ops problem."Įxactly the opposite. good luck to op.I know that your opinion is worth only a miserly 2 cents. I hope op doesn't lose his data and his drive. after using partition recovery on a raw drive, my files became corrupt.ģ. your post didn't appear to be relevant to ops problem.Ģ. Do you know what my 2 cents means? it means my opinion is only worth 2 cents.
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