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Indeed, thanks very much, I copied the files I wanted using TestDisk - panic over, donation sent, worth every penny.

I made some progress with the "It's useless to search partitions inside a partition." comment - without context this statement is meaningless. I now think the mystery is shown in my graphic. I missed the two lines that show the physical attached drives, the list below them are then paritions that ...

I have the same thing, I looked in testdisk.pdf where it suggests use chkdsk /f which I did at the very start of this episode, it seemed to go into the "wait the rest of your life mode while it does something and yield nothing".

But I can get access to and get files off the unseen partition using ...

Thanks for your reply, the problem is, I can't read drive (K:) from windows (XP), it shows up as "Local Drive K:" and I can't do anything more with it (access it).

When I run testdisk, it reports "Partition table type (auto): None" - so I thought the partition table might be wrong. Plus the error ...

Firstly testdisk rocks! it's great, I've managed to get files off a failing HD, however I now want more, I'd like it to behave normally. I have a 150GB (XP) HD that I've used testdisk to get files off, so they are still ok on the disk, but I'm having difficulty with the partition thing. The drive ...