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Assuming you only have one partition on your drive following your idea would overwrite the existing data.


Thanks for your reply. Do the logs indicate that it is not possible to re-write the existing partition at all?

If I can recover/re-write the existing partion table so I can browse it from ...

Hello!

Thank you for developing and supporting such great software that I have been using on a few raw drives.

I am trying to recover a raw partition on this drive 3Tb drive: 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - ST3000DM 003-1CD16N

I can browse my files fine from TestDisk but I am not able to access the drive in ...

As your disk is over 3 TB, choose EFI GPT instead of Intel.


Hi Christophe,

I tried again the steps given and now I can see the drive in Windows 10 but I cannot browse it since it only prompts to format it.

See logs attached:

testdisk.zip

Am I doing anything wrong?

If the partition ...

cgrenier wrote: 04 May 2020, 10:33 As your disk is over 3 TB, choose EFI GPT instead of Intel.

Sorry I had to zip the logs since they were too many characters for me to include them as a post. Hope it's ok, otherwise please let me know if there is any way to add them here. Thanks!

Hi Christophe,

I tried the option you recommended by selecting EFI GPT before trying to write the partition table.

Once ready, I restarted my PC and now I am unfortunately no longer able to see the external hard drive on Windows 10.

Here are the new logs in .zip file attached. Thanks for your ...

Hello!

I am trying to recover an external Seagate Barracuda 3000GB hard drive that shows up on Windows with E: but cannot be opened. I am being prompted to format it.
In TestDisk I am able to list all my existing files and copy them to another drive. However, I am trying to recover the partition ...