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PGP/GPG files. Also JPGs but they were just random data.

HOWEVER, Good News! I shuffled around placing the hard drives into different SATA ports and viola!, it recognized the HD as NTFS again. I have no idea why it started working again but it does!

Thank you for the personal help on this.

If you try PhotoRec, does it recover some valid data ? Note that recovered files will not have their original filenames.


Hello. Maybe you didn't see it since I replied to the thread and not you directly...

Some files were recovered but none were readable regardless of the extensions I try.

I ...

Update: I looked at the files with a text editor and they look like gibberish. Normally you can find human readable text in a binary file but in this case it looked differently than when a binary file is normally looked at with a text editor.. characters looked totally different.

Could the HD ...

I tried photorec on an image of the HD and it did recover some files

But yes... the extensions appear to be incorrect. I have not yet tried renaming and opening.

That is good news!?

I've tried doing what the TD manual says and various things I've read here… maybe I'm missing a crucial step. I have 15 years of special project work on this HD so I really need to recover it :-)

I have two identical HDs in one computer. One is a "live" HD and the other is a backup. Every night the ...