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Posted by: Lemonde - 11 December 2019 12:54:32
Hello I am trying to recover a disk that someone has been using for photographs and videos but it has also been used in a 'Zombie partitioned' disk hub that shows the following: 2 x 1.9 TB partitions (one is showing as encrypted with Bitlocker???) 1 x 2.72 TB partition RAW There are quite a few bad blocks on the disk tot, and it is very slow to respond. When I scan with a disk repair software I can see that there is a 2.72 NTFS partition for the photos, but that it is overlapped by the other partitions. Can I delete these Zombie partitions without destroying the data on the damaged NTFS partition?

Posted by: Lemonde - 06 January 2020 15:06:44
I could possibly have deleted the partitions but that would have been dangerous. In the end I actually got sircles to recover the data in advance of making any changes and then copied the photos onto a new disk. Best not to make any more changes when things get tricky :(