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wacho
 Post subject: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2026, 20:19 
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Hi, please if somebody can help me, i need to recover an mbr partition from a disk that was converted to gpt by mistake, I have tried testdisk, but it doesn´t show me anything, as if it was unpartitioned, any other program or technique I could use?
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2026, 21:02 
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Show us the Partitions tab in DMDE:

https://dmde.com/

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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2026, 22:07 
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fzabkar wrote:
Show us the Partitions tab in DMDE:

https://dmde.com/


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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: Yesterday, 12:52 
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wacho wrote:
fzabkar wrote:
Show us the Partitions tab in DMDE:

https://dmde.com/

it didnt find anything :/
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: Yesterday, 13:09 
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What sort of disk is this? Model number? Virtual drive? "Passmarkosfdisk"?

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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
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fzabkar wrote:
What sort of disk is this? Model number? Virtual drive? "Passmarkosfdisk"?

it was an hitachi, but the pins got all busted so I had to make an image, and I dont remember the model :/
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: Yesterday, 17:39 
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Tick the Advanced Mode checkbox and drag the vertical scrollbar from top to bottom in the right hand pane. Do you see any data?

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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
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fzabkar wrote:
Tick the Advanced Mode checkbox and drag the vertical scrollbar from top to bottom in the right hand pane. Do you see any data?

ok, let me do that now...
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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
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fzabkar wrote:
Tick the Advanced Mode checkbox and drag the vertical scrollbar from top to bottom in the right hand pane. Do you see any data?

none :/


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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: Yesterday, 20:31 
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If the disk was converted to GPT, then why is there no GPT metadata?

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wacho
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
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fzabkar wrote:
If the disk was converted to GPT, then why is there no GPT metadata?

thats what I´m asking, no gpt or mbr, is there a way to recover old data from there?
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: Help please - gpt-mbr mess
PostPosted: Today, 9:31 
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How can you expect to recover anything from an image full of zeros? Even if your drive was TRIM-ed after formatting, it should still have a file system. Your story makes no sense.

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