GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

While my attempts to recover the partition table on my dead external have failed, a friend swooped in and tried another method that not only worked but worked in seconds. I'm flabbergasted, but that's not important! What's important is that today 2TB of porn was saved! Even -more- importantly, it turns out there -was- a completed translation on that drive which had never been uploaded! So, here we are, first off it's the raw for Werk's C81 book--Oshigoto After 2! I'd had this scanned forever and apparently forgot completely about uploading it. Not sure how that happened, but here it is!

As an even better gift, I recovered the completed translation script from the 'dead' drive and will be putting an editing bounty up on it in a little bit. While I lack the prowess to do all the fancy wordsmithing, I'm sure some brilliant Photoshop Master will be more than happy to take my money in exchange for an English version of this book. I'll have to see about getting scripts done for the other few untranslated books as well. We'll see how that goes.

So in honor of both my zombie 4TB and knight2000a's upload of Perom@s 2, enjoy Oshigoto After 2!

Don't bother paying a bounty, Batman Scans will do this for free.

We did the excellent part 8 (/g/699102/b6cfd41739/) and I am more than happy to edit a quality scan for part 2.

PM me through the forums or hit me up on twitter @batmanscans and we'll work something out.

Last edited on 14 November 2014, 05:00.

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@Nomake Wan
I'm interested in the software you friend used to recover the partition.
Might be useful if it happen to me too.

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@NDestiny: The software used to recover data from the drive is, appropriately, called 'GetDataBack'. It ignored the completely screwed up partition table present on the drive and simply read the entire platter as raw NTFS. Works like a charm, though I will note that it only works in instances like mine where there's no physical damage to the disk (for instance, head crash or logic board failure). It also only works on NTFS or FAT partitions. The software I tried--because it purported being compatible with GPT disks--was TestDisk, but it failed to do anything other than waste 50 hours of my time.

EDIT: It turns out that I might've been using TestDisk in the wrong mode. Thankfully GetDataBack completely ignored my bungle and worked, but it appears that had I been using the other mode it might've actually be able to recover the partition table properly and I wouldn't be copying 2TB of files from one drive to another right about now. How do I know this? Because I used TestDisk to wipe the partition table on my OTHER 4TB drive accidentally (I just woke up). I then freaked out, switched to the mode it was in before the wipe, rescanned and in ten seconds it was back to normal. Bullet dodged but boy did I feel dumb.

@NDestiny: I don't use DISKPART as I prefer more truly destructive tools when I'm wiping drives, but here's the description from Microsoft:
"The data on the HDD is not written over using the clean command like it does with the clean all command below. With the clean command, the data on the HDD is only marked as being deleted instead and is only written over when new data is written/saved to the same location on the HDD next."

So yes, if all clean does is wipe the table information then GetDataBack will work just fine. However, as I mentioned above you may want to try TestDisk 7.0 first since it's free. Just make sure to set it to 'Intel' mode on the drive you want to try to recover no matter what it suggests, since you're trying to recover an NTFS partition. Don't be silly like me and set it to EFI GPT. ;)

Last edited on 14 November 2014, 18:59.

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@Nomake Wan
Oh, that's great.
What about if we did a mistake by using the clean command in the cmd ?
Does it work for that too ?

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English translation here: /g/760188/c8672a4d70/

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