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Brilliant - thank you so much for your help Fiona! You and TestDisk are awesome!

Ok, data backed up! Very glad to have one good copy of the files so far. But would be great to have a working hard drive again also! What's next?

here's the screen after quick search.

Yes, if I press P I see all my files.

I don't currently have another hard drive to copy to, if I go get an external, will I be able to copy the data to there?
If I write to the disk, will it simply recover the data without me having to copy it to another drive ...

Hi Fiona,

The scan completes, but shows

HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 187 254 63 3020157
HPFS - NTFS 188 0 1 30588 254 63 488392065 [Work]
HPFS - NTFS 17653 0 1 30400 254 63 204796620 [Portfolio]

The first partition I believe I was using as a scratch disk, and was 1GB partition. Eventually I deleted this ...

Hi Fiona,

1. My disc was originally a Basic Disk
2. then converted to a Dynamic Disk
3. Then increased the volume size
4. Then attempted to resize volume again after deleting excess volume.

Please help:

Thu Jun 28 19:47:15 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows Vista (6002) SP2
Compiler: GCC 4.6, Cygwin 1007.9
Compilation date: 2012-06-28T08:45:48
ext2fs lib: 1.42 ...

I was using AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager to do the volume resize, which resulted in the failure and now lack of access to the disk.

I've contacted AOMEI and they recommend:

1. Delete the Volumes and partitions
2. Convert it to a basic disk
3. Recover data with Test Disk

Does this make sense to do ...

I have a Seagate ST325082 4AS - 250GB (232.88 GB) Hard Drive
C - 16383, H - 16, S - 63; Size - 512

I had three volumes on it: G:\ and H:\ and remaining space was extended from G:\
To make more room I moved all the data from H:\ and deleted the volume.
Then I extended volume G:\ to the remaining ...