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cgreiner,

I haven't had much time to work on this but finally got around to it this past week. When starting up TestDisk, it does recognize it as EFI/GPT. I did both a Quick Search and it didn't find anything. I also ran the Deeper Search with the same result. It came back saying it couldn't find ...

Anyone else have any ideas as to where I should go from here?

I'm running Testdisk on a WIndows 8 laptop with the affected drive hooked up via USB cable in an enclosure.

I know you are trying to get your issue resolved as am I, but you should probably start a dedicated thread on it. I've been trying to seek help with my drive, but if others see your post and ...

How many partitions and what file systems have you had before?
Have you been able to list your files?
Did you run Deeper Search also?
Deeper Search looks for partitions using the backup of the boot sector too.
Your disk is an Intel-MBR disk supporting disk size up to 2.2 TB but should be GPT.
On ...

So I did a deeper search and it couldn't find anything but upon continuing it allowed me to get back to my current screen:

http://www.krypticvault.com/current.PNG

On this screen, I selected T to change type and it displays a list of different partition types. I know Fiona that you had mentioned ...

How many partitions and what file systems have you had before?
It was a drive from an Western Digital MyBook, so whatever partition type/partitions normally that come on those.

Have you been able to list your files?
I did a diskpart but it couldn't find any partitions listed. I'm not sure what ...

Can anyone assist in how I should continue from here? Any help is appreciated!

So I selected Continue and it ran a Quick Search on the drive. Below are the results of the Search

http://www.krypticvault.com/qsend.PNG

I selected Continue again and I'm now at the following screen:

http://www.krypticvault.com/current.PNG

I'm not 100% certain which option I should select ...

Ok, so here is the screen shot of the Disk Management showing the type

http://www.krypticvault.com/DiskManagement.png

I downloaded the 32bit version and selected the Partition Table type as Intel. I'm at the Analyze screen and this is what it shows:

http://www.krypticvault.com/nopartition.PNG ...

Fiona,

Thanks for the quick reply. The laptop I have the drive hooked up to is a Windows based PC. I will get the screen shot of the disk management for you. I well also get the 32 bit version of TestDisk and run the analyze on that and let you know what happens