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  • Testdisk is for recovering partitions, that themselves contain valid filesystems.. whats the output of sudo fdisk -l? so I know this is late advice, but always run filesystem checks in a native environment (so windows for NTFS, linux for ext/btrfs/whateverelse). also, dont even think you can approach this recovery without at least one additional disk of the same size as the original. never ever attempt to restore data to the physical disk you are trying to recover it from, unless its a simple file undelete (which this is not). Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 5:06
  • Please do not cross-post. For the record: the other copy is on U&L SE. Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 5:18
  • After i type 'sudo fdisk -l', i think the partitions still available but it shows Partition 1, 2, 3 does not start on physical sector boundary, and at the end Partition table entries are not in disk order., what should I do to fix it @FrankThomas?.
    – ooo4news
    Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 5:34
  • Were all the partitions formatted as NTFS?
    – harrymc
    Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 10:17
  • @harrymc, yes, the hard drive was from Windows so it was all ntfs and there was too much data there to change the hard drive to ext4 or something else so I still use ntfs on Linux. But this seems almost solved, I install Windows on my pc and checked the hard drive again, and it seems my partition can be recovered.
    – ooo4news
    Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 12:31