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Hello again.

Thanks for trying anyway.

My attempts with photorec (see above where I was running recoveries in parallel - one using Testdisk on the drive and the other using photorec on an image.dd of the drive) kept hanging up.
I was eventually able, using the Resume function in photorec,to save ...

Hello.
just got in - Tesdisk has finished - however it looks like Photorec stalled a couple of hours ago so I have just canned and resumed that session.

Here is the Tesdisk log - it is quite large but you asked me to paste it so here it is............


Tue Oct 1 13:54:54 2013
Command line ...

Hello Fiona - thanks for the quick response.

Photorec is still running against image.dd on my 2nd USB drive so I initiated a 2nd Testdisk window and plugged the original Seagate USB drive in as well.
Testdisk found a partition, but P to list files only listed 3 empty tmp directories from around the ...

Hello.

I managed to 'lose' my external HDD data by running a convert from FAT32 to NTFS (after hitting a file size limitation). The convert failed whilst in progress, despite running CHKDSK etc clean prior to starting conversion.
I immediately set the drive back to FAT32 in the hope of recovering ...