



If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. Other than that, all the partitions are correct.Part 2 Recover Deleted files with Testdisk and PhotoRecĭISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems.

Sda9 was the data partition that was somehow deleted, sda6 and 7 are 2 unknown partitions that TestDisk wrote to my partition table. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes However, fdisk -l shows all the partitions correctly Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors The problem is, when I use parted to show partitions on my disk, it shows an error like this:Įrror: Can't have a partition outside the disk! I tried to use TestDisk to analyze the disk and fix the partition table, and I am now able to access to my data partition from both Mint and Windows XP. I think I didn't delete it by mistake so I guess it's caused by Windows XP installer. After the installation finished, I found my data partition sda9 (which is a logical one) had been deleted. So, I have Linux Mint installed on my computer and then attempted to install WindowsXP on another primary partition.
