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Partition, or not to partition

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Hello,

The good news. a friend has recovered all the data onto to his ext hard drives for me.

Problem: I had lost basically everything, my C:\ , My Back ups , all of it. :-|.

Concern, It wiped out the partitions on my drives as well.

QUESTION: Can someone say, do I need to create an ntfs partition onto My backup drive before I transfer my backup files from his ext HHD to my backup HHD. Or will just copying the files to the bare drive work ?

In my head, I imagine I need a partition. I would like a little more educated help if possible ?

Could you please reply here. my system is down for the moment

Thanks,

Wayne

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Hello Wayne Russ,

You do need the drive to be formatted into some file system, NTFS would be great. Also, there should be a drive letter assigned to the drive to make it visible for the system.

Could you tell us a bit more of what happened? Did your drive/PC fail because of a hardware failure?

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Hi,

Thank you So Much For Your Reply. What I was trying to do was, I have a different drive. I was trying to partition it with a partitioning program. Trying to go mostly ntfs and 30 GB ext4 for Linux. The program was not easy to use. I lost track of which disk I was working with and I partitioned and formatted the wrong disks.

Sounds dumb, but that is what happened. There was no hardware failure. It was my mistake entirely.

Wayne, one of the normal warnings for most partition software is to always make a backup of the drive / partition you will be working on before making any changes.  Unfortunately you are human just like the rest of us and it is too easy to make a mistake.

Hope that all goes well with recovering your drive back to how it was from your backup images.  I don't know which partition software you were using but the one I normally use is the free MiniTool Partition Wizard which has always worked well for me, including making space for EXT4 & Swap partitions for when I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in a dual-boot scenario on my Windows 10 laptop.

One tip, always label your drives / partitions with clear / obvious names to make them easily recognisable when working with any of these type of tools.

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Thank you Steve,

I will not get to try to repair my system until the 28th. Assuming things go well and I can restore from my last TI Backup, I will not have lost to much. It is a recent Back Up. I try to keep up to date.

I do thank you for your tips. I will try using MiniTool Partition Wizard. It looks promising.

At any rate Thanks again for the tips and your good wishes. They mean so much,

Wayne