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Partitioning question
This is very possibly a dumb question, but here goes.
I have a 2TB drive that went bad a few months back.
I've since tried to recover its data but haven't had much luck.
I've run HDD Regenerator on the drive and seem to have established that the damaged sectors are clustered at the start and end of the drive.
The drive has only one partition. It's occurred to me that if I could set up two more partitions - one at the beginning of the drive and one at the end, encompassing the bad sectors, of which I've recorded their extents, I might be able to recover data from the center area of the drive, which doesn't seem to be damaged.
It would look something like this:
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
....with the the first lot of B's (bad) and the second lot of B's being partitions 2 and 3, while the G's (good) remain in the original partition 1.
What do you think?
Being an ex-builder, it sounds logical to me, LOL, but there's probably a reason why it wouldn't work.