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GParted almost make my data departed

I just want to change my external hd from lousy ntfs to fat32 so that i can write into the disk using ubuntu. So i resize the current partition and create a fat32 on the freed space. But what happened is, there was some error in the middle of the process. GParted shows that there were 2 partitions. One which fills the whole disk and one with 0 size. Both partitions' file system are not recognizable. Then I deleted the first partition. At this point, I can still read the files in the drive. Then I reconnect the drive and to my horror, everything was gone.

Help me.. GParted forum come to help. I come accross some similar ntfs cases, but no solution. But after some more searches, I found about this tool called TestDisk. At first, it can't detect the partition. The after some advanced poking, there is an option to choose the partition type. So I choose something resembling ntfs (there are 2 ntfs there, I just pick the first one). And voila, I can see the files. Then there was also an option to restore the backup table or something. I did that. I don't remember which one I did first. Anyway, I get it to work now.

Then I tried to resize the partition again, without setting the rest to fat32 this time. It doesn't work.

I also find about Hiren's Boot CD. It contains many recovery tools including TestDisk. I think it's very useful in this kind of situation.

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posted by Hendy Tanata @ 21:00