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Thanks Christophe.

I wish I found that article earlier. I looked but must have missed it. Instead yesterday I purchased "GetDataBack for NTFS" which found/recovered most of the data. On first launch like TestDisk it found the partitions then on the 2nd/3rd/4th it did not. On the 5th attempt it did ...

And here is the log..

I cancelled the last analyse as it was taking over 4 hours & on 7% & have only pasted in the first part of th log as the botom lines were repeating on different buffers.

thanks

Thu Oct 31 14:01:47 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013 ...

Some more details for who can help...

- When at the "Current Partition structure:" stage I see the below. I've only written the first part of each line. Item 3 is duplicated.

1 P Dell Utility
2 * HPFS - NTFS
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
3 P HPFS - NTFS
3 P HPFS - NTFS

- After pressing Analyse I get ...

Hi,

I dropped my laptop. I am reasonably IT literate as work in IT however am stuggling how to use TestDisk to recover my files.

I've taken the HDD out & connected via USB to a new laptop.

I ran first time, saw my connected HDD & did the analyse as was able to see "OS" partition & copy files from ...