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Hi, I made a dumb mistake and ended up deleting a partition on an external hard drive. It is a Mac formatted drive (HFS+). There were three partitions, the first on disk was smaller, I am assuming it was some kind of index, the second is all of the data which has not been touched, and the third which I have no idea about but it is small. I deleted the first partition for reasons I'd rather not go into because it is incredibly stupid. I've used EaseUS Recovery Wizard and I can see the data (plus a bunch of junk data, like thumbnails), but it's all FILE0203.JPG and has none of the original directory structure, file names, etc. My question is... is that original structure totally lost? I can save the data but it will take a very long time to sort it and make sense of it. If it's not lost, what steps do I need to take to ensure it does not get further hosed? Then of course, how do I re-create that original index and directory structure? I want to learn how this works so I never gently caress this up again/could recover myself it if I did.
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Jun 21, 2016 14:14
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I downloaded Testdisk but have not had a chance to go deep into it. It's almost 1TB of data so imaging the disk is hard. I just ordered a 6TB drive today so maybe I can use some of that space to dupe what is there? Is there a preferred way to do that or is that enough? I have another 1TB drive that has movies and crap on it I can move over to the 6TB drive so I can use it to image the broken disk if that is better? I'm also told that Stellar Phoenix is a good program to do this work but I haven't tried it yet either.
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Jun 21, 2016 18:12
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Thank you, I've use Reflect before so I know how that works. Going to try some more tonight and see if I can get some results.
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Jun 21, 2016 23:26
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Ok, Testdisk looks complicated to me and I'm going to try it again, but I ran Stellar Phoenix and get similar results to EaseUS. I can recover RAW files, but it has no sense of structure, does not recognize the drive as HFS+, and in another scan thought the drive was NTFS. I don't really understand what is going on. Edit: One scan is still running and it has found 32 Lost/Deleted "Volumes" and that sounds bad to me. Asshole Masonanie fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Jun 22, 2016 06:05
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I'm going to wager that this is bad.
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Jun 29, 2016 01:10
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