
So it is saying the Heads for NTFS should be 255 but Testdisk 7.1 WIP is reading 240. (To my amateur mind 240 or 255 heads is far too much for a HD isn't it, how are so many little mechanical heads going to fit in there?)Īnyhow, I clicked Analyse on the defailt Testdisk 7.1 WIP values and got:

The storage on the 800GB was 139GB free with the rest containing data.ĭetails of the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (WDC WD10 01FALS-00J7B) connected via SATA:

A ~100GB backup boot partition (Win-7 32) for moments like this when the primary won't boot. An ~800GB partition with the main install (Win-7 64) (unbootable now and in RAW according to diskmgmt.msc.)Ģ. It was split into 2 partitions using the Windows 7 installer.ġ. This is one of the most common high end HD's ( Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB). Testdisk geometry settings is giving me trouble. But I can no longer access the partition to reach this file. I got a 0x0000006b stop saying the bootcache.cat file needs to be deleted in system32/codeintegrity so it can respawn.

I have not written anything to the problem partition yet. I'm trying to recover a primary bootable partition that has turned RAW using Testdisk 7.1 WIP on a single physical hard drive.
