EaseUS partition manager terminated abruptly, leaving HDD partition to be unusable

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I was using EaseUS partition manager to extend my drive's capacity by including a 100GB partition into it.
The drive was earlier partitioned as 100GB+831Gb = 1TB(Toshiba HDD) and I was making it a single partition.
But during the process which was taking fairly long to complete, the power went off and it terminated abruptly.
Is there a way I can recover contents of the drive as they were?
I have already tried testdisk, but in vain!
The other option is to try a file recovery software but it will take weeks to sort out, with no guarantee that I will get back all my files! :(

Dhruv Singh

Posted 2014-12-16T07:09:59.647

Reputation: 113

Your best bet is probably to take it to data recovery specialists and have them try to recover your data. – d3dave – 2014-12-16T07:41:47.650

Is there no other way because data recovery specialists here in india would charge me a fortune for the volume of data in that partition :(. – Dhruv Singh – 2014-12-16T07:44:37.720

Then just copy it from your backup… you did have a backup before attempting a task like this? – Tetsujin – 2014-12-16T11:19:12.863

No I did not backup because I thought the task wouldn't take much time. If I would have had the backup then, this question wouldn't have been here. But yes, after being in a situation like this, I'll always have a backup before attempting any such task. – Dhruv Singh – 2014-12-16T13:01:38.830

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You could try testdisk again but with more "tricks", the help pages have several examples, see the "Documentation" section here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

And if recovering the partition / filesystems doesn't work, then PhotoRec can recover lots of different filetypes. It's by the same author & in the same package as Testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

There's other tools like Scalpel, Foremost, MagicRescue too...

Or see this link for more info too https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

Xen2050

Posted 2014-12-16T07:09:59.647

Reputation: 12 097

I'll try and get back to you. Thanks for your reply. :) – Dhruv Singh – 2014-12-30T16:19:37.367

I was able to recover all my files using gpart. It detected the entire partition as it is i.e. with all the files with the tree structure; so in a case I did not loose anything.

– Dhruv Singh – 2015-01-05T08:03:39.307

@DhruvSingh gpart sounds like it does some of the same things as testdisk, they both scan disks looking for actual partitions, ignoring whatever the partition table might say. That's great news that it worked so well! Definitely get a backup so you're not worried next time, and you can mark an answer as "accepted" if you want too – Xen2050 – 2015-01-05T08:19:41.080

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