I'm trying to recover the data from an old 1tb sata hdd
Two partitions went just fine but the one in the middle is showing as unformatted on explorer. Disc management programs even see it as two unformatted partitions with the same letter.
Data recovering programs can't work on it because it's a dynamic disc. And I can't convert it from dynamic to basic, I guess because the partition is flawed.
What I do? There's very important data on that partition.
I'm trying to recover the data from an old 1tb sata hdd
Owen Powell
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Gavin Morales
You need to use diskpart to clean that disks volume information table of bad drive letter entries.
From a command prompt (you may need to translate this to huenigger0
diskpart [enter]
select disk 1 [enter]
clean [enter]
Reboot, reopen disk manager, you should find the partitions without drive letters, assign and continue on with your life
Ryan Nelson
Restore from backup
Robert Gonzalez
Will that keep the partitions and their data? Just remove the letters? If it works I'll thank you a lot user. Will try that when I get home in 7 or 8 hours
Lol
Matthew Powell
Bump
Robert Nguyen
>Restore from backup
correct answer but we already know that OP is a faggit and didn't bother to backup his very important data
what is the nature of the problem? is the drive bad or is it just a hosed filesystem/partition table?
if the drive is bad, use ddrescue to clone it to a good drive
if its a hosed filesystem, you might have better luck trying to mount it in Linux.
Bentley Robinson
I thought HDDs were good reliable things
>what is the nature of the problem? is the drive bad or is it just a hosed filesystem/partition table?
It's either or both
>if the drive is bad, use ddrescue to clone it to a good drive
I don't want to clone the entire HDD just that one partition
>Linux
I'll research doing it with a virtual box so I don't make a mess with the windows install
Liam Carter
>From a command prompt (you may need to translate this to huenigger0
What, the cmd commands are the same on any windows language.
Benjamin Jenkins
>I thought HDDs were good reliable things
you couldn't be more wrong
hard drives are bad unreliable things
this is why backups, RAID, cloud storage providers exist
>It's either or both
use crystal disk info (a windows program) to tell you if the drive has SMART errors.
if yes, its hardware
if no, its a fucked filesystem or partition table
>I don't want to clone the entire HDD just that one partition
quit being a faggit
doing the absolute minimum is how you get shitty results
use ddrescue to clone the entire drive because who fucking knows how deep the rabbit hole goes here
you might have shit scattered outside of the bounds of the partition itself, which is why I specifically mentioned partition table.
Jeremiah Jones
Crystal disk is all blue on that HD
But it was making some real loud noises last week
Ok but will cloning also clone the mbr quality? I want the new hd to be gpt.
I'll try the commands of the first reply and if it doesn't work I'll clone it.
Caleb Nelson
>Ok but will cloning also clone the mbr quality?
>mbr quality
>quality
wtf are you english second language?
cloning copys everything just as it is
your clone is separate from whatever new drive you use
if you want GPT on the new drive fine, but now we are up to 3 drives:
1: old bad drive
2: clone target drive
3: some new drive you want to use with GPT
After you recover your data, then you can re-use drive #2
dont be cheap
Austin Campbell
I have old 1tb drive, new 1tb drive and 250gb ssd. Can it be converted from mbr to gpt by itself without losing data or needing another hd
Nathaniel Richardson
epic troll mate
this wipes the drive btw
Grayson Evans
Can you assure that these commands aren't bait that wipe data
Bentley Walker
that's literally how you destroy the partition table.
anyone who posts here for help gets trolled.
Easton Wilson
What do you suggest then
Isaiah Rogers
>Can it be converted from mbr to gpt
I don't know if you can convert MBR to GPT.
I just wipe and lay down a new partition table
>Can you assure that these commands aren't bait that wipe data
that wipes the disk
Noah Bell
Clone it in Knoppix or whatever and try some different recovery tools on the cloned image. You're working with the live drive, which is a mistake to begin with.
Jonathan Wilson
>wtf are you english second language?
>cloning copys everything just as it is
>copys
okie doke
Grayson Morris
He wanted to identify, don't mock him
Gavin Flores
How long does it take to clone 1tb 7200rpm
Jacob Flores
yeah i fucked up
but it's a grammatical error as opposed to an illogical statement regarding quality of mbr, which sounds like foreigner speak due to bad translation
Ayden Powell
boot to linux livecd/usb
plug in another drive (I see you have empty D:\) see where it is mounted and note the path (subdir in /media/ if automounted)
do
lsblk
Note what your partition is, guessing from its size (sdc2, sdc3, whatever)
Now do
dd if=/dev/ of=/path/to/file/on/another/disk conv=noerror,sync status=progress
This will give you the most precise copy of your partitions. From there, you can try to mount them or fire up a VM and continue with recovery from there.
You can also try hddguru.com
Robert Sullivan
I will take the risk and try to fix the partition on the live disk then copy the files to the new disk. So I can keep the GPT.
Zachary Evans
Download Lubuntu live CD and plug your drive into a Live Lubuntu session.
That's how I got my shit from my old W7 drive.
Filho da puta.