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Thanks again for your help Fiona.

I did and as you said and have copied all my files to another external HDD. Now that I have performed this backup process how should I proceed to repair the partition table?

Is there some more information I can provide that will help finding a solution to my problem?

The partition is much larger than 1Gig, it uses the whole disk.
I did not use TestDisk/ undelete to list my files. I did a deepsearch to list my files.
I did not have a try to copy some large files off to another disk/partitions.

Thanks for your help Fiona.
I have included a more complete log.

Wed Sep 11 15:24:16 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 3.8.0-26-generic (#38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 17 ...

Here's the contents of my latest TeskDisk.log:


Wed Sep 11 15:24:16 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 3.8.0-26-generic (#38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 17 21:43:33 UTC 2013 ...

Thanks for your reply Fiona.

There was only one partition using the whole disk.
I did run Deep Search in TestDisk and was able to see my files (I was unable to see anything with the quick search).

I could really do with some help please.

Thank you very much for your help cgrenier.

Here is what is displayed after I run TestDisk, Advanced, Boot:

Disk /dev/sde - 300 GB / 279 GiB - CHS 36481 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P FAT32 0 1 1 140 254 63 2265102

Boot sector
check_FAT: Bad number of entries in root dir
Bad ...

Hi,

I have a external HDD that Windows wishes to format. I would rather not as it contains my backup files. Probably not unmounting the device before shutdown resulted in some corruption.

There is only one partition and with testdisk's 'deep search' I am able to see my files. Could it be that the ...