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Topic: guess i fukced up my partition?

Hi!

First i want to thank for this great programm. unfortunately i was to stupid zo use it propperly.

i tried to combine a partition with free space i just created. then i realized that i chose the wrong partition and aborted the process. now the data on that partition isnt readeble anymore.

windwows recodnizes the occupied data in the preferences(eventhough thr color in the graph is all red, an wehen i point the mouse on the partition the popup says its allmost empty) but the partition is empty when i open it.

is there any way to recover it?

thanks!!!!

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Re: guess i fukced up my partition?

Hi!

hdkiller wrote:

i tried to combine a partition with free space i just created. then i realized that i chose the wrong partition and aborted the process. now the data on that partition isnt readeble anymore.

This is because resizing a partitioon in GParted does not only resize the partition itself, but also the file system laid out on this partition. Resizing the file system means moving around lots of data on the disk and reorganizing the metadata used to manage the available space and the data stored on the file system. In the middle of this process, the metadata on disk is very likely to be inconsistent - and since you have aborted the operation while it was running, you havew inconsistent metadata right now.
These metadata structures sture which file is stired in which diretory, which file system blocks in whoch order belong to which file, when each file was last accessed, how mich free space you haven, and so on. Since these structures are not consistent with the data on disk (and maybe not even within themselves), your partition is unreadable now.
If I remember correctly, there is even a confirmation dialog after you've clicked "Abort" that tells you thatz severe damage to your data could occur if you abort now, and offers you the option to continue the operation... So the safe way would have been to wait for the resize process to finish and then revert back to the original partition size!

Maybe you'll have a chance to recover your files using e.g. photorec - despite its name, this tool can recognize and recover much more than "only" image files.

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Re: guess i fukced up my partition?

thanks!

i read the warning, but i thought the risk wouldnt be so high. would be better if it writes: you data will be damaged ;-)

bc gparted started the process i wonder if it could recover the problem maybe better in any way?

however. ill try the tool

thanks again!!!