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hi fiona,

I did run deep search on both: intel and none partition table. no positive results, yet...

you mentioned this hp format tool... by using this tool data will be deleted and well, actually that is what I want to avoid.

later when I get home I will try PhotoRec.

Below I will post the ...

Hi fiona,

I will follow your suggestions. But before that I need to clarify that it is only a normal usb device which I use to save and transfer data from a PC to another, it's not a HDD.

The problem is that it has not being synchronized for a while and at the moment many important data is only ...

ntfs log






Thu Jul 5 21:28:56 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows XP SP3
Compiler: GCC 4.6, Cygwin 1007.9
Compilation date: 2012-06-27T08:51:50
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs ...

fat32 log




Thu Jul 5 21:28:56 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows XP SP3
Compiler: GCC 4.6, Cygwin 1007.9
Compilation date: 2012-06-27T08:51:50
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs ...

Hi Fiona,

if I select any of the other options I get: No Partition Available.

Only by selecting "none/advanced" I get:


Partition: P unknown
start: 0 0 1
End: 977 99 17
Size in sectors: 15701759

Well, here then I selected "type/fat32/boot/rebuild bs/"

=> can't see clusters

then I sarted again ...

Hi Fiona,

thanks a lot for your reply and support. I was expecting to get a notification at my email if somebody replies but I didn't. Thats why I am seeing your reply until now. Now I subscribed to this topic.

I will go step by step following your instructions:


Instructions

Would it be ...

Hi All,

well I have an USB (8GB, sandisk, I use windows xp) and now suddenly when I try to explore it there is a message telling me "the device is not formated, do you want to format it?"

I downloaded testdisk I tried to run it:

1. CREATE
=> the device is found:
>Disk /dev/sdb - 8039 MB / 7666 ...