All my partitions in testdisk are D | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

strong saffron May 4, 2025, 8:34 PM

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I changed the important stuff to P but it doesn't save how do I save the changes

still pagoda May 4, 2025, 8:36 PM

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https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step#Quick_Search_for_partitions

CGSecurity

TestDisk Step By Step

This recovery example guides you through TestDisk step by step to recover a missing partition and repair a corrupted one. After reading this tutorial, you should be ready to recover your own data. Translations of this TestDisk manual to other languages are welcome.

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You're at this part right?

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It says enter

still pagoda May 4, 2025, 8:37 PM

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strong saffron I changed the important stuff to P but it doesn't save how do I save the changes

Is that right though

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I haven't used testdisk but why is the esp in P

strong saffron May 4, 2025, 8:38 PM

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still pagoda I haven't used testdisk but why is the esp in P

I think p means primary

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Lemme reboot and see if it save

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Idk how I got all the partitions into D

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Wait is D deleted or disabled

still pagoda May 4, 2025, 8:39 PM

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Partitions listed as D(eleted) will not be recovered

strong saffron May 4, 2025, 8:40 PM

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So what can I do with them lol? Do I just copy and paste it into another drive

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the files

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I managed to recover like some of the partitions

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Except for that one hidden partition

rigid viper May 4, 2025, 9:36 PM

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Wat da issue

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:41 AM

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rigid viper Wat da issue

Okay so

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Partition not work

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I restore partition

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Os not boot up

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:42 AM

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Mmm

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Checked Lsblk at least?

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Also maybe the Bootable flag is turned off when you restore

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:44 AM

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rigid viper Checked Lsblk at least?

Is it same as fdisk -l

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:44 AM

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But less info

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Easier to read

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:46 AM

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Also what's Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:46 AM

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rigid viper But less info

Yeah I got 4 partitions but os still no boot

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I'm supposed to have 5 lol

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:47 AM

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strong saffron Also what's `Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck`

I'm out since I can't help
Good luck

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That's what it means

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:47 AM

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strong saffron I'm supposed to have 5 lol

Do you have important stuff on it?

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@strong saffron

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:50 AM

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rigid viper Do you have important stuff on it?

The missing one is prob a system partition so no

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I recovered the important one tho

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:50 AM

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Ooookay

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You can probably remake it

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Boot into arch usb

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I'll tell you how

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:53 AM

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I think it might be the win recovery partition lol

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Bc whenever I go into windows it won't even go into startup repair

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:54 AM

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Windows!?

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Ew

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I'd remove that

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:59 AM

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rigid viper I'd remove that

I need it bruh

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 12:59 AM

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strong saffron I need it bruh

Wine
Virtual machines
Ect

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:00 AM

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rigid viper Wine Virtual machines Ect

Can't use wine for valorant😔

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And apex too

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And bodycam

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 1:00 AM

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Those games su-
Obs instead of bodycam

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:00 AM

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No

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Bodycam is a game

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:01 AM

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rigid viper Those games su- Obs instead of bodycam

Did you think it was bandicam lol

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:01 AM

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rigid viper I'm out since I can't help Good luck

So if its in the emergency shell it means error cannot be repaired?

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:01 AM

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strong saffron So if its in the emergency shell it means error cannot be repaired?

No

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Can you mount it

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Mount what

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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The system partition

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Yes

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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And your boot partition if it's separate from the root partition

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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I think grub or the efi partition committed death or smth

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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still pagoda And your boot partition if it's separate from the root partition

no I don't think it's separate

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Are there files in the boot of your root

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:03 AM

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yes

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before the partition issue I actually tried to shrink the disk

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:05 AM

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Like grub and partitions

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:06 AM

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strong saffron before the partition issue I actually tried to shrink the disk

like the main partition

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:06 AM

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strong saffron before the partition issue I actually tried to shrink the disk

And did you shrink the partition before shrinking the filesystem

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:06 AM

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ye

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:06 AM

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Yea..

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That breaks it

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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and I made an oopsie in testdisk by accidentally removing everything from the partition table

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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......

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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so now I'm kinda stuck

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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strong saffron and I made an oopsie in testdisk by accidentally removing everything from the pa...

I just clicked write bc I thought it would auto fix the stuff

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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You should have just resized the partition back to the previous size and it would have been fixed

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:07 AM

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And realised I have to include everything in the partition table

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So how do I fix this lmao do I try and find that one missing partition

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Also why is testdisk detecting mac hfs

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😭

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:08 AM

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Mount a esp

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Chroot
Reinstall grub

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Regen the config

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:09 AM

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what about the missing Microsoft reserved partition how do I rebuild it

rigid viper May 5, 2025, 1:17 AM

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strong saffron what about the missing Microsoft reserved partition how do I rebuild it

Either you're fucked
Or we just don't know

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 1:29 AM

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o

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 12:52 PM

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Anyways

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I think this is kinda solved

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But then

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How to expand my ext4 drive

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I mean

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Partition

still pagoda May 5, 2025, 1:38 PM

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expand the partition and make the ext4 fill the available space

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resize2fs without arguments other than the partition expands the filesystem to fit the partition

strong saffron May 5, 2025, 2:32 PM

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Nvm I figured everything out myself

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Thx

#All my partitions in testdisk are D