#Testdisk filesystem seems damaged how to#

How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum. SpinRite does have a utility for reading SMART data. 'If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer.' Last time I ran spinrite on a damaged disk, it spent its last gasps trying to fix random bits on the disk surface, and as a result I could not get the disk to function sufficiently to perform any further recovery tasks like imaging it to healfthy media. It is also included in the SystemRescue CD, a Linux LiveCD with many repair & rescue software pre-installed and ready to use once you boot from it. com/datare coverywiza rd/recover -ext2-ext3 -drive.htm RE: Cant mount/recover second harddrive - please help :-( G0AOZ (TechnicalUser) 21 Oct 10 05:55ĭepending on what FileSystem was on that drive, and how many Partitions, I would look at something in the order of the following:Įasus Data Recovery Wizard Professional (commercial) Honestly any help is gratefully appreciated.

Mainly the videos and music are replaceable, BUT the biggest loss would be a lot of personal photos. I really would love any help for this problem. But when i tried to view the files on the partition i simply got the following messageĬant open filesystem. Include as many details as you can, MOST POSTS WILL GET ONLY ONE OR TWO ANSWERS. Give clear, specific information in the title of your post. I tried analysing the disk again but this time i chose 'None' as the filetype, and this time it came back with a possible partition. Filesystem seems damaged Forum rules When asking for technical support: - Search for posts on the same topic before posting a new question. I ran test disk once using the default option file type of 'Intel' when analysis the disk and it told me there were no partitions - same again when i did a deeper search. So i had a look at the hard drive details via GParted, and it was telling me it was unallocated. So i triedĪnd that didnt work, i even tried putting it into the fstab file and that didnt work either. However when i booted up my computer after the reinstall, my second HD was no where to be found. I wasnt too bothered at the time as i had two hard disks in my machine, one which help programs and the os etc, the other larger SATA one for all my media. OK so not long ago i updated my pc to the latest version of ubuntu, but it ran so slowly that i reinstalled a previous version.

Testdisk filesystem seems damaged