On Monday 20 March 2006 15:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hi, Mikkel. I'm running testdisk at the moment, to see how much is > > recoverable. Originally it had a FAT32 partition at the beginning, > > (Win98, at one time) and the extended partition shows up as FAT32, both, > > seemingly, type Oc. The first windows partition may not be recoverable, > > by the look of it, and maybe some of the linux partitions inside the > > extended partition. They are partitions that I don't care about anyway, > > so it doesn't really matter. When the intense search has finished I'll > > tell it to mark for recovery all the bits it thinks it can recover, then > > write a new partition table. If that works fdisk should be able to see > > the drive again, and I'll take it from there. > > > > Anne > > Hi Anne, > Let me know how testdisk does. On drives that have been > repartitioned a couple of times, it will sometimes find > the 'old' partitions. This is because the signature for > the old partition is still there. But it will usually show > up as non-recoverable. But that is why the program asks > for user input before trying to recover partitions. The > user usually has an idea of how the drive was partitioned, > and can make a better 'guess' about what partitions are > valid. > The partition types for an extended partition and a FAT32 > partition are not the same. But that information was in the > partition table, and that is gone. So what testdisk is going > by is the 'signature'. But it sounds like it is finding more > then one 'signature' for the same chunk of drive. This is > because changing the partition table only affects a few sectors > on the drive, and even formatting a partition does not erase > most of the old data from the drive. Depending on the format, > it will only overwrite the data when writing the FATs, or the > Superblocks. > I'll report back. The one bad thing about testdisk is that you can't return to the previous screen. I was just about to write the partition table when I realised that there was a problem with the way I had typed one partition. I have had to start the intense search all over again - that's over an hour. Anne
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