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No. I provided its report.xml in the top post.

Thu Mar 24 08:54:47 2022
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, February 2022
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 11.2, Cygwin32 3001.4
ext2fs lib: 1.45.3, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib ...

Sorry; the drive is purely internal. It was bought as an internal drive (never removed from its housing).

smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-21H2] (sf-7.3-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 2.5 5400
Device Model: ST1000LM048-2E7172
Serial Number ...

Thanks for the look. Unfortunately, this is how the drive started. First thing I did was the Quick-Search / Deep Search method. I assume that the log shows that. When neither even turned up a single partition, I tried to add partitions by guessing.

Is that maybe the right route to go down? Use ...

Hey All:

I'd love some tips on where to go from here. My drive is a fairly new Seagate 1tb drive, but for whatever reason it has completely lost its way. The drive has a number of music files, legally purchased from back when that was a thing, and some jpeg images of album art. I can't remember if ...