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is it also because this drive, with two partitions:
both cannot be "P"rimary partition, the first one should have been "P" and the second one is "L"ogical ?

testdisk detected first one as * and second one as P

and now the second one (P) is accessed fine, but the * first one isn't detected properly ...

to elaborate on this previous post, I followed testdisk step by step instructions, until:

It works, you have found the correct partition!
Use the left/right arrow to navigate into your folders and watch your files for more verification
Note: FAT directory listing is limited to 10 clusters - some ...

Hi Fiona, you advocate not using chkdsk -

however in many Windows systems (mine is Windows 7), if the system accidentally reboots (perhaps after a scan, or an automatic update), chkdsk might run itself - is there a way to switch off chkdsk auto-running to prevent any bad thing from being written ...

Hi Fiona, you said in another post:
"If TestDisk finds your correct partition, you can write it into your partition table again."

I encountered this as well, and I tried to write it in, but after writing, and restarting the computer,
I am back to square one - that partition is still not recognised ...

hi, I read in the documentation that after partition scanning is done, only 10 clusters of file information is displayed. can I please verify this fact, because

after I recover a partition, it shows me my "p" list of files, which shows one directory only.
in this partition, I have a few ...