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May 31, 2008 at 04:54 AM
thomashuang2

Need HELP with testdisk, trouble writing found partition

by thomashuang2 . Updated 18 years, 1 month ago

Hello,
I’m backpacking in Australia and I’m in Darwin now. An idiot who is living in the same hostel has a problem with his external hdd. Somehow he deleted his partition. The drive shows up as unallocated. (he’s french, I think he said something about a popup telling him he was going to lose all his data, I assume he must have formatted his drive)

I ran WD’s disk tools and it said the drive was fine, so I downloaded testdisk and found the lost FAT32 partition using the “none” partition type.
The boot sector was bad so I restored the backup and could read the file list afterwards.
I tried to go back and write the partition back into the table but it tells me “write not available because ‘none’ selected”
What do I do now?

I tried to search for the lost partition with “intel partition” but it won’t find anything under that type.

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