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Alad
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testdisk

Unread post 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

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sudo apt install testdisk
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Re: testdisk

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:17 am

For the emergency sessions.
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Re: testdisk

Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:40 am

It's a good software - and we should, for the sake of completeness - also mention its contender 'PhotoRec'.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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Re: testdisk

Unread post 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.
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