I know this doesn't help you now but ALWAYS back up data before doing anything you are not familiar with - never mind that just always back up important data.

Ideally to help you it would be good if you have access to another Windows computer.ĭo you remember what drive format you used for Linux? Linux's default file system is called Ext4. OS: Linux, kernel 3.13.0-24-generic (#47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:) i686Įxt2fs lib: 1.42.First of all I must tell you I know Windows very well but have not done extensive work with Linux. TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013 It will eventually boot up into Linux or Windows and they seem to work normally but I am not happy about the slow booting which worries me. Subsequent boots all take a very long time which worries me - I have not timed it but it seems to be close to 10 minutes to boot up. However, it did eventually boot up after a long time. I did not realise from what was displayed on the screen, that it was going to change the disk sectors.īut when I next tried to restart my computer it took so long that I thought it was not going to boot up at all and I got really concerned. Testdisk told me that my sectors were wrong.

Outputs including any folder/file names TestDisk was used to find andīefore I ran testdisk on my bad external hard drive, I decided to run it on my computer's good hard drive. Will contain TestDisk options, technical information and various

If you choose to create the text file, testdisk.log, it Information gathered during TestDisk use can be recorded for later It can also be used to repair some filesystem errors. Partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptomsĪre caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error. TestDisk is free data recovery software designed to help recover lost Code: Select all TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013

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