I want to recover data from my hdd with testdisk.
Testdisk therefore wants me to recreate the original partition table
and to assign the correct CHS values.
As I remember there was only one NTFS partiton, created with Windows 8.1 and its default settings.
So i probably had an:
MS-DOS table
with
1 Partition formatted with NTFS
on
1 disk with 500GB shown by fdisk as:
MS-Dos Partition is not available as option, but Intel (which is probably the same, isn't it?)465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors, Sector size 512 bytes
Testdisk's first guess was "Non partioned media"
with "CHS 60801 255 63 - sector size=512"
The "Analyse" option does not return valid values (for both, non-partioned media and Intel partition table):
No, I had no FAT partition, but yes, the partion was not bootable.Partition Start End Size in sectors
2 P EFI (FAT-12/16/32) 0 3 52 0 17 1 832
Bad relative sector.
check_FAT: Unusual number of reserved sectors 4 (FAT), should be 1.
check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf8!=0xf0)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 64 (FAT) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 63 (HD)
3 P FAT12 4 85 18 5 25 20 12288 [Firmware]
Bad relative sector.
No partition is bootable
Don't know, what it want about EFI, isn't it the "BIOS" (or its newer replacement) ?
However, now I need to define the partition table manually,
Can anyone help me to get the right values and how to proceed?
And: There is no really important data on it, nothing I cannot live without, would just only take some time to collect it together..