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by kkgorilla
25 Apr 2013, 17:00
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Re: Portable Harddisk became RAW

Hi I would really appreciate if anyone can give me some advise here...
by kkgorilla
22 Apr 2013, 02:12
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Re: Portable Harddisk became RAW

Hi Fiona, thanks for replying.

I am using two computer to work here, one is my personal laptop running on Vista 32bit and the other is my office pc running on Window 7 64bit. The TestDisk I used is 32bit in both case.
In the disk selection, as you can see from my first attached screenshot, I only ...
by kkgorilla
21 Apr 2013, 14:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Re: Portable Harddisk became RAW

Hi all,

I have read through the forum found some similar situation but not exactly the same. If this has been reviewed and solved, can someone kindly point me to that?

I have not create additional partition for this USB portable harddisk, I started using it right after de-boxing it.

Please help!
by kkgorilla
19 Apr 2013, 03:45
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Re: Portable Harddisk became RAW

...continue

After I select 'Analyse' I see:

Snap4 - Analyse.JPG

and follow by "Quick Search", after that the search jump quickly to 10/121600 as shown:

Snap5 - Quick Search.JPG

And it seems to take forever to advance from here, is it normal? Normally how long does it take to analyse the ...
by kkgorilla
19 Apr 2013, 03:37
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Re: Portable Harddisk became RAW

Hi I think I should provide more information to help to diagnose the problem:

I started testdisk, after create log this is what I see:

Snap1.JPG

Disk capacity of 1000GB is correct.

Then, it shows:

Snap2.JPG

Funny thing is, when I run this with my laptop (Window Vista) it auto detect it as ...
by kkgorilla
18 Apr 2013, 05:26
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Portable Harddisk became RAW
Replies: 6
Views: 5019

Portable Harddisk became RAW

Hi all, I have this 1TB USB 3.0 external harddisk, running on NTFS (I think) system. I did not partitioned. It became raw recently and has been trying to fix it.

I follow the steps describe in the step to step guide and trying to do the deep search now, and it has been hours and the percentage done ...