'Recover Hibernated partition
I accidently formatted my ntfs windows partition with "mkfs.ext4". I was able to recover it with testdisk but it seems that the windows partition was hibernated, so whenever i tried to open windows it starts repairing disk errors which was taking too long, so i manually chkdsk ,to which after some time it started telling -"unreadable sector........ which also took very long so i shut it down. In kali linux whenever i tried to mount it with "mount /dev/sda3 /mnt -t ntfs -r" it mounts but many of the folders are empty including windows,program files,Users. I am new to linux,can you tell me steps to recover my files if possible windows... Thanks in Advance.
Solution 1:[1]
Use sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdXY where XY is the partition name. ex:sda4. use gparted to find partition name. Then mount. It may help.
Solution 2:[2]
First check to see it the partition is mounted, it maybe mounted as Read-only. Then issue the mount command with the options. sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/yourWindowsPartition /media/yourUser/WindowsPartitionName
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | sinhayash |
| Solution 2 | linuxify |