12-30-2017, 04:57 PM
(12-30-2017, 12:42 PM)Moltke link Wrote: Hi [member=458]m654321[/member]
I faced a similar situation, mine was a usb 1TB hdd and it looked like I'd lost almost 800gb of data :-X but I recovered my data/partition with testdisk following instructions from here: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
Since then I bookmarked it in case - hope never but better safe than sorry - I ever need it again. To be honest it was quite very easy and I recovered my data with little no effort.
Good luck recovering yours!
EDIT: By the way, I almost forgot but for best results you should use test disk from a live environment. Here: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3132067/...tdisk.html
Hope this helps!
Many thanks for your help.
I've now wiped the drive. I discovered I had a backup on setup3 below (Phew!!!!) , though the backup was done 3 months ago. So I only loose the last 3 months of data - putting it into perspective, the data represent a total of 15 years data: photos, videos, admin, etc, so I've got the bulk of it. I'll keep your & TC's links though, as they might be useful next time - though as you say let's hope there wont be a next time!
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work