- Sep 22, 2016
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Hello all,
I am hoping you can assist me, and thank you very, very much in advance.
I own a Samsung Chronos laptop with a 1 TB harddrive. I originally partitioned the HDD into 250GB C: for programs, 500 GB E: for Media, and left the remainder (approx 150 GB) between the two (D:?) so that I could ration it as needed for whatever filled up first.
Media filled up first. So, a few days ago I opened AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, and tried to allocate 50GB to C: and the other 100GB to E:.
C: went fine, and it's bigger now. However, an error popped up, which I stupidly did not record, saying something happened during E:, and next thing I know my computer looks like this:
E: Media is damaged. In AOMEI it looks like this:
This is bad. I research and find TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk tells me that E:'s MFT and MFT Mirr. are damaged. I run PhotoRec for 9 hours, and it finds a ton of files, all renamed of course. Hundreds of these are Adobe files, which cannot be previewed in Explorer, and would take weeks to sort through and rename.
I would very much like to recover this partition and/or files with names, if at all possible. I have bought an external 1 TB and used AOMEI Backupper Standard to create a Sector-by-Sector clone of E: so that I may try to fix it without bothering the original. I have read about a few softwares like R-Studio and DMDE to try, but I also read that running certain softwares on damaged sectors/disks can be harmful; as such I want to check with you knowledgeable folks before proceeding further.
Thank you so much everyone in advance; if we can get this data back, and anyone is in San Diego, I owe you several beers!!!!
I am hoping you can assist me, and thank you very, very much in advance.
I own a Samsung Chronos laptop with a 1 TB harddrive. I originally partitioned the HDD into 250GB C: for programs, 500 GB E: for Media, and left the remainder (approx 150 GB) between the two (D:?) so that I could ration it as needed for whatever filled up first.
Media filled up first. So, a few days ago I opened AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition, and tried to allocate 50GB to C: and the other 100GB to E:.
C: went fine, and it's bigger now. However, an error popped up, which I stupidly did not record, saying something happened during E:, and next thing I know my computer looks like this:
E: Media is damaged. In AOMEI it looks like this:
This is bad. I research and find TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk tells me that E:'s MFT and MFT Mirr. are damaged. I run PhotoRec for 9 hours, and it finds a ton of files, all renamed of course. Hundreds of these are Adobe files, which cannot be previewed in Explorer, and would take weeks to sort through and rename.
I would very much like to recover this partition and/or files with names, if at all possible. I have bought an external 1 TB and used AOMEI Backupper Standard to create a Sector-by-Sector clone of E: so that I may try to fix it without bothering the original. I have read about a few softwares like R-Studio and DMDE to try, but I also read that running certain softwares on damaged sectors/disks can be harmful; as such I want to check with you knowledgeable folks before proceeding further.
Thank you so much everyone in advance; if we can get this data back, and anyone is in San Diego, I owe you several beers!!!!
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