Accidentally deleted partition Table, trying TestDisk

Stuff_ · January 7, 2016

So, I'm running TestDisk on this drive, which was weird already.

I recently installed Manjaro, and one of my HDD's simply wouldn't mount. It was giving me issues with the type of format it was. It wasn't NTFS, but something else, something more Microsoft-y and I guess was done through Windows partition manager when moving/editing partitions.

Anyway, I managed to delete the partition table, which is now leaving me in a preeeety poopy spot. (At worst, I'll be losing the entire Star Wars Trilogy in Blu Ray (will just have to rip it once again, ugh), some other movies, and stuff that isn't entirely important.

Anyone have any luck using TestDisk? I'm Analysing the disk now, so hopefully it can fix it for some recovery.

Djole123 · January 7, 2016

Good luck recovering that (FAT) partition table

Stuff_ · January 7, 2016

Well, I didn't have any success with TestDisk, but I did decide to buy EaseUS Data Recovery (If you download the trial, then uninstall, they give you a reduced price of around $48 from retail price). It was able to recover EVERYTHING. What a magical piece of software that is.

I'm fairly certain everything is exactly how it should be as well, without any corruption. At least, the larger files, suchas my Star Wars collection (~30GB per movie) didn't have any corruption. I would recommend this product to anyone that needs to backup their data from some issue suchas mine (something unrecoverable).