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Hello people i am back after a long absence..
I am curious if TestDisk can help me recover some files.
I have used it before to fix partitions.

First off what happened is i knocked my PC over again and right away it had problems.
I run "Hard Disk Sentinel" 24/7 so when i rebooted it up it showed at ...

Hi Fiona ..i seen your reply to me on another topic ;)
Just so you know its gonna take me more time to restore my data
so my problem hard drive is still available if you have any ideas for me..
And i have checked (with TestDisk) the boot record and its reporting ok..
I had restored the partition and ...

i hear ya.. i just gave up on fixing my partition problem
i got it restored but can't mount it in windows so i decided to try
paragon partition manager to fix problems and it didn't help but it
has a built in volume explorer and that opened my missing partition
instantly rather than a recover ...

have you seen this guide ?

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

i found it helpful

I see you used v6.13. Are you using linux ?
Do you know what your goal is ?
Like what partitions you had before and what ones you are after now ?

Also if you actualy formatted a partition that ...

i edited my post above..

also i hope its ok to stop the scan when i see the partitions i am after ???
i tried doing that and it seems to work fine.
Also since i wasn't getting any useful results from the normal scan,
i stopped it at 0% and went right away to a deep scan. and then stopped that scan ...

Well some time today I'm going to try and format my problem drive.
I have tried tried TestDisk like 3 or 4 times and it can't write my partition back :(
Although I would advise TestDisk to anyone with partition problems and especially
advanced computers user, it has more advanced options than any ...

Sat Jul 7 15:11:46 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.6, Cygwin 1007.9
Compilation date: 2012-07-05T08:08:04
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0 ...

Well i can post screens if i redo again the whole scan run again, currently
i just turned the program off since i failed to do anything usefull with it lol

i also edited my first posted with my second run results.

my log file is 24kb large so is that too big to put into a comment reply in the ...

I am going insane and I am desperate for some help from an expert. I've been trying to
recover a partition for close to 3 days straight and failing (even when programs say they worked)
And Hi by the way and thanks for the software :)

What i have is a WD Green 1TB EARS drive (sata) and i *was using ...