testdisk

I posted a message describing my situation to the Gentoo user's group and was told that I should look into a program called testdisk

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Don't know about this "testdisk" you mentioned, but recently I got data back from a laptop hard drive which had been formatted over and Windows XP installed on top.

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Joined: Fri Dec 27, 2002 7: 51 pm posted on Fri May 15, 2009 7: 01 am morphine wrote: Don't know about this "testdisk" you mentioned, but recently I got data back from a laptop hard drive which had been formatted over and Windows XP installed on top.

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May 05, 2009 at 12: 36 AM testdisk has saved me after I blew up an 8GB SD card by hitting "ok" when I should've hit "NOT OK".

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May 05, 2009 at 12:36 AM testdisk has saved me after I blew up an 8GB SD card by hitting "ok" when I should've hit "NOT OK".

Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools | Lifehacker Australia 2009

In any case I downloaded testdisk asked it to analyze my hd and about half way through it said that the number of heads per cylinder were 128 and it more than likely should be 255 (or the other way around I forget which but I know the numbers are right).

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When I originally ran testdisk before this latest error I remember testdisk telling me that I only had 1 partition.

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So I went and changed the geometry of the external HD such that the number is what testdisk told me was and the result is that my computers can read it but it seems that all the files are missing.

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It has clamav (antivirus), testdisk/photorec (partition table repair and data recovery), foremost (data carving/recovery), and partimage (for imaging/restoring images).

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Do I have to send the command: Write TestDisk MBR code to first sector, with testdisk?

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