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Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks! You should repair the disk!įound valid MBR and corrupt GPT. Warning! Error 0 reading partition table for CRC check! Warning! Read error 0! Misbehavior now likely!Ĭaution! After loading partitions, the CRC doesn't check out! Type device filename, or press to exit: 1:Ĭaution: invalid backup GPT header, but valid main header regenerating Here is what I get when I run gdisk: GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10 I would be appreciative of any help you can offer. I am confused on what this means or what the next step is. When I choose option 2 to rebuild GPT it says the partitions overlap. I have attached my initial findings using GPT fdisk.

I have the drive out and hooked up to my laptop to try and repair the file structure.

Instead of the software reformatting the external drive 1 it reformated the internal drive 0, so I lost my OS and C partition. I was trying to fix my son's computer and so I took out his harddrive and tried to reformat it. I'm no computer expert, but for a novice I'm pretty proficient and can fix most computer problems and follow clear instructions. I am trying to recover my GPT file structure on the hitachi 1 terabyte drive. That pretty much guarantees it was in EFI mode correct? I have a Hitachi drive which got its GPT corrupted, it came out of a Windows 8 computer which is less than a year old.

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