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JohnRulz

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Registered: 2013-12-14

Posts: 4

Using testdisk (SOLVED)

Long story short:
I wiped an old HDD, formatting once from NTFS to EXT4. This is not the problem.
Decided to cut/paste files onto the old HDD
Decided "wait, I should separate this into two partitions"
Canceled the cut and deleted the accumulated files
split into two partitions
Then it hits me: I used cut, not copy, all files that copied before are now gone.

I cancelled it rather quickly, so not much was lost. Unfortunately, the minecraft world my little sister and I had been building was one of those files.

Running testdisk, selecting the drive, then advanced returns error "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged." This doesn't make much sense, as it is a functioning drive with a newly formatted filesystem. I assume this is the fault of the partition splitting I did, though if I'm doing something wrong please tell me. Should I delete the partition and try my best with the unallocated space? Should I re-merge them? Both of these seem really inadvisable. I really want help here.

Thanks in advance,
John

Edit: Using Photorec returns largely useless text files that clearly were not text files. It seemed to be recovering older files too. I stopped the recovery before long.

Edit 2: Running deep analysis

Edit 3: It didn't help. It found my old ntfs partition, though still displays same error. Provides error for the ext4 partitions on my SSD. The only thing it will open is the boot partitions and my flash drive.

Edit 4: I know what the partition map of the disk was. I could use fdisk to recreate them. But I cannot make a backup. Is this reasonably safe?

Edit final: I did it. It's done. My data is safe.

Last edited by JohnRulz (2014-01-06 06:55:31)