Test disk recovery
- by AIB
I had a 250GB hard disk having several NTFS partitions. The disk was a dynamic disk (created in windows).
Now when I formatted windows (which was in another disk), the dynamic disk is shown as offline.
I tried using the testdisk tool to recover the data and created a partial backup.
Testdisk is able to list all partitions in the disk. All partitions are shown as type 'D' (Deleted). I want to change the 'D' to 'P' (Primary), 'L'(Logical), 'E' (Extended) appropriately and build a new partition table. If I can write the partition table to disk, the disk will be of 'basic' type and should be readable in all OS.
What should be the appropriate partition types? I checked the files on the partitions and no OS was ound. So none of the partitions were bootable.
Will randomly selecting P,L,E hurt the data in anyway?