HDD with UFS Filesystem recovery ...

[Dark Knight]

I have an hdd that was initilized in windows so the partition table was deleted, this hdd is for a Sun workstation that have solaris Os version 10 ... i need to make recovery i used R-studio but its showing me a lot of recognized partitions i need to know what is the false positive ones and what are the real ones 

[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

Recognized 3 and Recognized 10 seem to be contiguous partitions.

Alternatively, 7, 12, 18 and 19 are also contiguous, as are 2, 5 and 15.

IMHO, DMDE's Partitions tab is a much better display format.

[Desert Data Recovery]

Use UFS in stead ot RS. 

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[Alandata Recovery]

they are all potentially valid

the inodes and superblocks are spread across the drive

Each group is like a mini volume with its own superblock inode table and directory...

or not

they may be false

or partially initialized.

use ufs explorer

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[Dark Knight]

thank you for your replies , DMDE do not work on UFS unfortunately 
i used UFS explorer it just showed me raw files and did not recover any partition, as partition results R-studio showed some but they are not healthy as i did not found the root partition till now 

[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

As long as the customer didn't create new partitions and format them, initialisation by Windows should only have touched the GPT metadata in sectors 0, 1, and 2 plus the backups at the end of the drive. Maybe you haven't been given the full story?

[Alandata Recovery]

Solaris used a modified version of ufs.

The structure may not be recognized. 

I write my own parser to recover these. 

It's been a while since I have seen one. 

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 8:20 AM pbzcbf...@gmail.com <pbzcbf...@gmail.com> wrote:

As long as the customer didn't create new partitions and format them, initialisation by Windows should only have touched the GPT metadata in sectors 0, 1, and 2 plus the backups at the end of the drive. Maybe you haven't been given the full story?

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[Dark Knight]

aha so i need to check in internet what is the modified version of UFS solaris 10

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