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Yeah i guess so. Such narrow mindedness on microsoft's part!!
Anyways, thanks for all the help. Got my 3TB drive back with all its data intact

Also, with the drive in USB connected to my laptop running Win7, i ran testdisk. It found my partition, wrote it to the drive but even after restarting disk manager still showed it as raw.

PS- i wasn't able to copy files after listing them using testdisk 6.14 but could copy with 6.13. Concerned ppl ...

Thanks!! Got it done.. i had not pressed the left/right key to make the partition primary. Wrote it to the drive. Then it asked me whether i should copy from back up or rebuild the boot sector. I copied it. Got my drive back :)

but then i put it into a usb enclosure to connect it to my laptop, and ...

cant do that since dont have my desktop here. i have plugged it into my dad's pc but it has XP which doesnt recognise 3tb drives. currently running ubuntu 11.04 from a 4gb usb.
As for your ques - i think i did convert it to GPT disk. I was using it with Win 7 Ultimate 64bit.
the problem was i couldn ...

Hmmm.. deep search takes a lot of time
and i ll need to arrange for hdd to store nearly 1.6tb of data

Actually, internally the sector size used by the drive is 4096 but to the OS it appears as 512 only. Atleast thats what i can comprehend from the documentation. I might be wrong. The pro's here might be able to explain better.
How do i list files to copy? i cant fill in the ending sector as ...

Also, WD site lists -
User Sectors Per Drive 5,860,533,168
acc to which the sector size shld be 512bytes.

did a deepscan with Testdisk 6.14 after changing sector size to 4096 in geometry manually. got the following screen -

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

Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45601 255 63

The ...

Also if i try to add the partition myslef using 'A' when i enter the ending sector as 5860532223 and press enter, the value that comes is 1565564927. Any idea whats happening here??

what about the error that HCS and LBA dont match??

ran deep search using EFi GPT option also. the results given below -


TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 ...