Recover SFS partition !

Lio wrote:
Hi all,
I am using SFS 1.267 on a partition called docs: where I store scans of old magazines, on a 80Gb HD.
The partition was 8 Go but was nearly full so I created a new one at the end of the HD called "documents".

after save and reboot, I got 2 uninitialized partitions (docs and documents).

I thought that if I delete and recreate the docs partition, I should have everything back in place but no :(

after sfsformat, I have now a totally empty partition even sfssalv sees nothing in fast and deep mode...

are my scans lost forever ?

why 2 partitions sharing some caracters would become uninitialized ?

joerg wrote:
@Lio

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Lio wrote:
Hi all,
I am using SFS 1.267 on a partition called docs: where I store scans of old magazines, on a 80Gb HD.
The partition was 8 Go but was nearly full so I created a new one at the end of the HD called "documents".

after save and reboot, I got 2 uninitialized partitions (docs and documents).

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The most likely reason is that you accidentially moved, changed the size or some other settings of docs. Especially moving partitions by accident happens very easy, if you click on a partition and move the mouse a little bit while still holding the left mouse button the partition is moved
But HDToolBox should have warned you that the contents of the docs partition are lost in such a case.

I am quite sure I did not change the docs partition because it is in between 2 others existing partitions and moving was unlikely as well.


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I thought that if I delete and recreate the docs partition, I should have everything back in place but no :(

[quote ] Recreating it with exactely the same settings (lowcyl, highcyl, blocksize, dostype, etc.) should have worked.

after sfsformat, I have now a totally empty partition even sfssalv sees nothing in fast and deep mode...

are my scans lost forever ?

why 2 partitions sharing some caracters would become uninitialized ?

Lio wrote:
@joerg

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Recreating it with exactely the same settings (lowcyl, highcyl, blocksize, dostype, etc.) should have worked.

because it was in between 2 existing partitions, recreating it was easy, just with "add new partition" but as I said the partition appeared completely empty...