Saturday, July 18, 2015

windows - Restoring partition using TestDisk

I'm on Windows 8.1 Pro. I have a 60GB SSD from which I boot, and most of my data is on a 1TB SSHD. The SSHD was formatted with only one partition. I recently tried to shrink that partition to dual boot CentOS, but the shrink failed halfway through. When I rebooted, nothing from my SSHD could be read. I ran chkdsk /r on the drive, and it found and fixed a TON of problems (pretty much every file on the drive, or so it seemed). After it fixed things, some of my files were accessible but pretty much everything was missing. The total partition size is correct, but the amount of data on the partition (according to Windows) is roughly half of what it should be.


I ran a Deeper Search in TestDisk, and it found ~50 partitions, most of which say the filesystem is Mac HFS (the others are MS Data). If I know that the SSHD was previously formatted as just one big partition, can I do anything in TestDisk to fix it and manually reset the partition table? I'm just not really sure what I should do at all.

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