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ok I carried on investigating through other posts on here and decided to plough on with my recovery.

after choosing the extended search I continued with the following;

Advance from the main menu
Build
Rebuild BS
List (to check if the directory structure was still intact)
Quit

then the final ...

And finally is showing as Basic

I am not sure how to proceed without data loss, I appreciate any help

My disk shows in disk manager as 931.51 GB RAW Primary Partition and healthy

My OS is Windows7 although this is an external device.

There should be 1 partition (max size for 1TB)

I have found similar posts but like those posts to continue without guidance would be foolish.

All help is gratefully received once I have receovered my data we can then arrange a donation to ...

This drive has been assigned a drive letter (E:\) but windows wants to format when ever you go near it.

I have run a full test disk with the following output



Thu Nov 8 21:19:20 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, September 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier ...

I have a Buffalo 1TB external USB HDD which I am unable to get into as Windows setup formatted it, actually I pressed the key so technically....

The log output isn't helping me too much having gone through a few FAQ's some identical to mine, any help would be fantastic.

There is 950GB of the usual ...