btw filetype NTFS, start sector 63, end sector 1953525166 size 931.51GB all looks fine to me.
The used size isn't in the partition table! Partition Wizard knows how NTFS works and read the structures and tells you how much space is used. It's a negative number so.... it's a PW summary overflow, or the filesystem is corrupt. Not a partition problem!!
win7 checkdisk will fix that, or report more details about the problem.
I didnt recover anything yet. Only started the quick scan and that is what you see in my last post. The start screen is looking like in the following picture.
Cant run checkdisk on it, because windows only sees it as a RAW drive. If I click on the partition in the quick scan result I can show all my files. So maybe PW can fix it.
PW sees all fine. Only it computes the used space wrong. So computes the used space wrong as well. Do you know the real used space (or free space) approximately?
Is it possible to shrink the partition? Shrink partition with partition magic wizard.
How to shrink Windows partition without damaging data?
To prove it's not a hardware problem How to perform disk surface test with partition manager software - Partition Wizard?
The state hasnt changed, still negative unused space.
Can do a disk surface test, but that will take 9 hours and more, so I'll probably run that tonight and post the result tomorrow
Yep, I would also be interested in knowing it.
Please rerun Partition Recovery Wizard, Quick Scan and if it stays partition still exists and partition explorer shows the files, blindly go ahead and rewrite the partition table. Since you will only be writing to sector 0, you are not doing anything to the data.( However if it I has already been corrupted due to your dabbling with Linux/fdisk,Changing sector size, attempting to shrink partitions etc., etc., and other write operations, data integrity cannot be guaranteed. Anyway let us make a brave attempt to retrieve whatever possible)
Please post screenshots of 1.how the drive looks in Partition Wizard, 2. The result after running the quick scan 3. How the files show up in the partition explorer and finally how your drive looks like after rewriting the partition table.
For all the screenshots please use the Windows Snipping Tool and upload the snap. ( Do not use third party sites)
For more help on how to go about with Partition Recovery Wizard, proceed to the topic Recovery with Partition Wizard: SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB ( in your case it will be your external hard drive) in Recover a flash drive turned RAW – Partition Wizard and TestDisk.
Since it is already bedtime for me, I may return only after another 10 hours. So Kaktussoft may continue if he has better ideas, short of any writing operations.
The partition explorer displays the files similar to the windows explorer. Rewriting the MBR Table dont seem to help.
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