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So nothing changed after writing the partition table?


Not that I can tell, except that I actually realized since originally posting that the partition I have screenshotted that is marked drive letter E: in disk management is actually only showing up/being created after I run testdisk. I ...

MBR is not the right partition table, you should have selected GPT instead.

The Testdisk log file states that your drive shows a logical sector size of 512 bytes.
A MBR-type partion table only has 4 byte fields to save sector numbers.
4 byte equals 4 byte *8 bit/byte =32 bit and allows to address ...

So it's a stupid story but I was using Clonezilla to copy my system drive, which has always had some weird boot problem and Clonezilla said there was both a GPT and MBR sector and so I tried using it to delete the GPT one from my system drive, but got the drive list mixed up and wound up deleting ...

Here is my log file:



Thu Mar 9 13:45:29 2023
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 6.4, Cygwin 2009.0
ext2fs lib: 1.43.1, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib ...

recuperation wrote: 09 Mar 2023, 08:38 Please upload your pictures to this site.

Apologies I did not see the attachments tab at first! I have updated the images and thanks again.

So I have a USB external drive I accidentally deleted the only/primary (I think it was GPT) partition on. I successfully found it using Testdisk under [Intel], verified the found partition has the files I lost inside it, and re-wrote it following the partition recovery instructions. It shows up as ...