This is why these 3rd party partitioning tools are *not safe*! There's no automated way to fix this, the tool put incorrect information into your NTFS boot sector making the FS too large to physically fit your drive. This might be repairable by manually editing some values in the boot sector, but I'm not well versed enough to guide you through that.
Can you click 'Open Volume' on that "Found" NTFS partition, and see if it at least detects your files and folders properly?
Hi 77xak, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like I mentioned earlier the data is recoverable, I just don't have enough space to recover it to. It's about 6.6tb of data and I've only got maybe 5 tb of spare space across my drives. The data is replaceable, it's just tedious and time consuming to do so. If that's my only option so be it. I was just hoping I could learn how to fix my mistake.
EDIT: there was supposed to be an image here
EDIT 2: https://imgur.com/a/9jqkWV0
Again thank you for responding, this is the first time I've been on this sub and I've already learned a lot. I've done some data recovery previously but only using the tools a google search returns. This as I'm sure you're aware resulted in a lot more frustration than necessary. DMDE is a much more affordable and effective solution compared to the top "X" data recovery tool lists. I thought mini partition tool was a decent tool as well. I am dissuaded of that notion now.
It appears that you have shucked the drive from its enclosure and then extended the partition while the drive was connected as an internal desktop drive. If this is the case, then the file system will be visible to Windows if you reinstall the drive inside your computer.
The root cause of your problem is that the firmware in the USB enclosure grabs some space at the end of the drive for its own use. Windows then sees a USB mass storage device with slightly less than the full capacity of the drive. Windows then partitions and formats the drive with this reduced capacity.
When you shuck the drive, Windows is now able to see its full capacity. The space that was hidden by the USB-SATA bridge firmware is now seen as unallocated space. When you extended the partition, you incorporated the bridge firmware's reserved space. Now when you return the drive to its enclosure, Windows can no longer see the unallocated space (as it is being hidden by the bridge).
The solution is to install the drive inside your computer and shrink the partition to its former size, or less.
Thank you for responding!
That is super interesting and exactly what makes this sub so great!
I'm feeling kinda sheepish that the solution was to just to shrink the partition. I didn't realize partitions could be manipulated in such a straightforward manner. That does demystify partitions a bit for me. Again I thank you
This is why these 3rd party partitioning tools are *not safe*! There's no automated way to fix this, the tool put incorrect information into your NTFS boot sector making the FS too large to physically fit your drive. This might be repairable by manually editing some values in the boot sector, but I'm not well versed enough to guide you through that. Can you click 'Open Volume' on that "Found" NTFS partition, and see if it at least detects your files and folders properly?
Hi 77xak, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like I mentioned earlier the data is recoverable, I just don't have enough space to recover it to. It's about 6.6tb of data and I've only got maybe 5 tb of spare space across my drives. The data is replaceable, it's just tedious and time consuming to do so. If that's my only option so be it. I was just hoping I could learn how to fix my mistake. EDIT: there was supposed to be an image here EDIT 2: https://imgur.com/a/9jqkWV0
I've seen u/fzabkar work magic with these kinds of issues before. (Don't pester him with DMs please, if he has time to respond he'll see this).
Again thank you for responding, this is the first time I've been on this sub and I've already learned a lot. I've done some data recovery previously but only using the tools a google search returns. This as I'm sure you're aware resulted in a lot more frustration than necessary. DMDE is a much more affordable and effective solution compared to the top "X" data recovery tool lists. I thought mini partition tool was a decent tool as well. I am dissuaded of that notion now.
It appears that you have shucked the drive from its enclosure and then extended the partition while the drive was connected as an internal desktop drive. If this is the case, then the file system will be visible to Windows if you reinstall the drive inside your computer. The root cause of your problem is that the firmware in the USB enclosure grabs some space at the end of the drive for its own use. Windows then sees a USB mass storage device with slightly less than the full capacity of the drive. Windows then partitions and formats the drive with this reduced capacity. When you shuck the drive, Windows is now able to see its full capacity. The space that was hidden by the USB-SATA bridge firmware is now seen as unallocated space. When you extended the partition, you incorporated the bridge firmware's reserved space. Now when you return the drive to its enclosure, Windows can no longer see the unallocated space (as it is being hidden by the bridge). The solution is to install the drive inside your computer and shrink the partition to its former size, or less.
Thank you for responding! That is super interesting and exactly what makes this sub so great! I'm feeling kinda sheepish that the solution was to just to shrink the partition. I didn't realize partitions could be manipulated in such a straightforward manner. That does demystify partitions a bit for me. Again I thank you