Partition, or not to partition
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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In risposta a Hello Wayne Russ,… di 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.
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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.
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In risposta a Wayne, one of the normal… di 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
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