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Originally Posted by Stealth22
Fuzz wins this thread. I didn't even remember the 2TB partition limit. Isn't 4096 the default cluster size though? (That being said, it would still have to be setup as GPT...)
I'm not 100% sure, but I think there still might be a way to recover the data. Fuzz, you can correct me if I am wrong, but if Windows can't read the drive without formatting it, could OP use a bootable Linux CD or something to get at the data?
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4096 should be default, but you can change it.
You could probably recover some of the data, but from what I understand, it hits 2TB, then just writes over the first part of the disk again, because it can't address the larger space. That's why you get corruption, and since the master file table is at the start of the disk, well adios MFT. So any data that hasn't been overwritten would be recoverable as individual files, but that can be a major PITA to sort out without an MFT. Been there.
And to Meelapo and everyone else, backups! Big drives are cheap, once you get this sorted, save yourself time in the future and backup.