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Alad
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by Alad » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:49 am
My external NTFS drive broke hard, I could not mount it in Linux (invalid partition table) nor Windows. In both cases it reported it was 1 TB large instead of 500 GB.
I don't know why or how this happened (except "bloody computers"), but
testdisk recovered the NTFS partition and allowed me to run chkdsk in Windows.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
It's funny how we used to be able to do real stuff with rudimentary computers, but now we can't. -- ratcheer
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Subsentient
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by Subsentient » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:17 pm
I love testdisk/photorec. My installer which has barely anything else at all still manages to have testdisk and photorec, they're that useful. Right up there on my list with GNU parted, the best partitioner of all time.
Bathing in peanut butter is good for the soul. Not the chunky kind though, the chunks get stuck in your crack.