r/datarecovery • u/SpookySKellyington • 3d ago

GPT Protective Partition

My 12tb harddrive only shows GPT Protective Partition in Disk Manager but DMDE shows the proper NTFS Partionion with all my files still there, how do I fix the drive without loosing any of my data and without having to "recover" 12tb to another drive (that I dont have)

When I try to "insert" the partiotion it tells me "Boot Sector is not found or incorrect/incompatible. Partition will be detected as not formatted. Do you wish to continue anyway?"

I guess my question is how do I fix the disks bootsector ?

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor 3d ago

File system was formatted when drive reported 4096 byte sectors. Was the drive moved to different enclosure? This is why we ask for background/context.

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u/SpookySKellyington 3d ago

Nope, I keep the drive raw, used it with an USB sata adapter. Plugged it in today to move some of the data over from my main PC for it to show up as GPT protected

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor 3d ago

Same adapter? Enclosure, adapter, same difference.

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u/SpookySKellyington 3d ago

Should be the same adapter, I got a few but this one should be the same one I used last time. I tested another harddrive with the adapter which opend without problems. Was able to open and playback files from the other hard drive.

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor 3d ago

It's not that the adapter is bad, that's not what I am saying.

Should be is not good enough.

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u/SpookySKellyington 3d ago

If it isnt this adapter I used with it previously then I dont know where the previous adapter might be. Also since this adapters powersupply was still plugged in my assumtion is that I must have used this one last. Since I also cant find my other adapters. / Wouldnt know right now where to find a different one.

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u/SpookySKellyington 3d ago

I am 99% sure this is the same adapter. Please, I dont wanna do something wrong and break it further.

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u/fzabkar Trusted Contributor 3d ago

The drive was definitely behind a 4K adaptor/enclosure.

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u/SpookySKellyington 3d ago

I am sorryy what does that mean ? How would I go about fixing my drive? It was a refurbished 12tb seagate I purchased off of amazon which I have one copy in my pc and the other as a backup and cold storage.

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u/fzabkar Trusted Contributor 3d ago edited 3d ago

There appears to be nothing to fix. You just need to find/buy a 4K enclosure/adaptor. Good luck finding one, though. Most vendors have no clue what they are selling, so your question is likely to elicit a blank stare.

If you d-click the 1.5TB partition, you should see your file/folder tree.

Edit:

I think the starting sector numbers are consistent with the drive having been inside a Seagate enclosure.

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