Re: Help with TestDisk
On 4/29/2015 5:41 AM, German wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:24:50 -0700
Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> wrote:
On 4/28/2015 8:03 PM, German wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:06:29 -0700
Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> wrote:
As you can see, there are two directories, but how to view contents of them I have no clue. Enter, P, Right does nothing.
In text based programs one dot represents the current directory, two
dots represents one level up from the
current directory.
When you hit 'P' in testdisk to list the contents of the partition, it
starts you in the root of the parition. So no
list of files and folders indicates no files and folders are recognized
in the partition it is showing you. Being
at the root of the partition there are no levels above to go to when
selecting the two dots and hitting 'enter'.
Was this after a deep scan?
After deep scan I got one FAT partition 32 MB in size, what is it and what it has to do with NTFS I also have no clue.
The error message from the mount attempt was attempting to mount a
partition as ntfs.
It's fairly common for drives to ship with one small parition to hold
the software that ships with the drive and
a larger partition for backup/data storage. Often the small partition
would be FAT and the large one NTFS.
I think that physically ok. I just was installing Lubuntu to my
computer and forgot to unplug this USB drive and installer probed it
and done to it something nasty.
As Murphy said "Anything that can happen, will happen".
Could have been a bug in the installer, could be something else that
just happened to occur during the
Lubuntu install process.
Thank you for the effort explaining all that to me. Have a great day.
Good luck, if photorec doesn't do it for you either, I have used the
Windows version of R-Studio with some success.
Have not tried the Linux version and the version I have is old so looks
quite a bit different that the screen shots
at at the web site.
There is a trial version so you can see if it will at least show you
some files.
http://www.r-studio.com/data_recovery_linux/Download.shtml
Don't know about this next one, no Linux version, but looks like they
have a trial available as a bootable disk.
http://www.prosofteng.com/datarescuepc3/datarescuepcdemo/
Just downloaded it, it's provided as a zip file that extracts to a .exe
file, so it may or may not do what it needs to
to create a bootable disk in Wine.
Later, Seeker
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