I’m afraid that I have a hard time sorting this out. I dug up references, but I’ll have to find time to study it more. The author at the link has a lot of material on the subject. You might try doing text searching on some of the documents for likely key words. Sorry I can’t offer more.
after scaning drive with test disk this finally camo out…
any idea how i can use this data?
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdf - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243204 255 63
The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! (< 11292925 TB / 10270855 TiB
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection…
The following partitions can’t be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
MS Data 264192 5860532223 5860268032 [New Volume]
MS Data 233582700 22056494242075226 22056494008492527 [M-X~_~_
MS Data 529020076 7822410015532042 7822409486511966 [#" L~XM-A
MS Data 1066098310 10588439877331821 10588438811233511
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NTFS, 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
I’m not sure if this applies to your situation, but a search on “The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small!..”
turned up this-
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/help-drive-too-small-partition-ends-after-disk-limits-t325.html
It take some studying, but there are instructions for a procedure which fixed the person’s problem. Look at the Test Disk Log in the post and see if any of it resembles what you have. The (possibly) relevant material is very near the end of the text in the box.
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i had a call from wd support… they conected to my pc reformat drive, returned it to gpt, then windows recognize disk as 2TB, not as it should 3TB drive…
conclusion is that one of plate has died.
thanks to all who contributed and tried to help
I’m glad WD got back to you and found an answer. I’m sorry the news was not better. I don’t remember; are you within warranty? I hope you can RMA.
hard drive has only six months, and its a WD RED, with warranty period of 3 years, so i guess it won’t be problem to get new back.
problem is that i lost 3 TB of files… tried after formating to restore some things with easus recovery, but no luck… files are visible, but all corrupted…
Shoot! I know the feeling all too well. I am still trying some fairly extreme measures in hopes of recovering a large number of photo scans from a disk which died rather suddenly.
If you still want to try to recover anything, here’s the utility package I’m using-
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
Info-
http://www.hiren.info/articles/recovery/hard-drive-data-recovery-freeware-programs
The download is an ISO image which creates a CD that can boot to a stripped down Windows XP, DOS, or Linux. There are very many different tools on the disk which run in one or another of the OS’s.
Good luck, if you try. It’s a great emergency tool package to have around in any case.
UPDATE: The Hirens CD absolutely saved my data! Get the ISO, burn a CD, boot from it into the default option for Linux. If the drive does not mount, try hitting it up with the Drive Status app which is on the desktop. That got my balky drive to mount and I got everything I wanted copied to a good drive. I would suggest disconnecting all drives except your Source and Destination drives so as to avoid any unfortunate accidents. It also makes it easier to know which drive is which under Linux naming. Volume labels may or may not appear.
Given all that the drive has been through at this point it may not work out, but I would certainly try!
Best of Luck!
