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Hi Fiona - am I missing something, I can't see NTFS as a type.
Thanks
Gordon

Hi Fiona - I don't see the the option for NTFS on the list of TYPEs - what do I do?
Also, after I've changed to NTFS, shall I REBUILD BS even though I can already see my files when I LIST.
Thanks

Also i can see my files with LIST even before REBUILD BS

Hi Fiona,

Type NTFS is not available...

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TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

2 P MS Data 409640 1953262983 1952853344 [Time Machine ...

Deeper search as GPT gives this...

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Analyse cylinder 196/121600: 00%


check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8 ...

When I analyse as GPT, I get the following. And the files can be seen under the main partition.

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size ...

If I press Continue, I get the following...

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors

No partition found or selected for ...

Hi Fiona - here are the details you suggested...
Does this tell you what has happened and how I can fix it.
Thanks

From Analyse: Intel/PC
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TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdc ...

Can anyone help please.. I can see my files with Testdisk, I just dont know how to change the partitions to access the drive again.

Thinking about the reply I gave to Fiona, I seem to remember originally there was a very small GPT partition at the start, then the large (almost 1GB) NTFS partition ...

Thanks Fiona - I'm not sure to be honest.
It was originally bought for a Mac to be used as a time-machine backup drive (hence the title). When my Mac died I formatted for PC it using Macdrive 9 as NTFS but I'm not sure whether it was Basic of GPT. Does the way I formatted it tell you which it is ...