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Then thanks again for all the help! Surely couldn't get out of it without you.
You can mark the thread solved i think.

Wish you the best in your life.

Yes i deleted the partition and created a new one.
This is what TestDisk shows. Is it right now?

Ubuntu 14.04 also supports and proposes alignment to mib instead of cylinder.
Two of my disks are aligned now to mib. The one we were trying to recover and the new one i bought. Both western digital and on their site they prefer the advanced format and 4k sectors.

Thanks for the info. Very useful ...

Sorry i didn't noticed that so far i was using 64bit version.
I downloaded 32bit and the results are these:
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Also here is the output of testdisk 32bit


Sun Jun 22 01:12:54 2014
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, June 2014 ...

I always choose disk in TestDisk and i run the 32bit version.
You have absolutely right as the disk supports advanced formatting. Also it's 4K sectors and i can confirm this from the output of fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders ...

I finally managed to get all my data back.
I run fsck and it corrected too many errors. Couldn't mount the partition though. Also tried to restore the superblock but no luck there. So i ended up formatting the drive and repartitioned the disk. I now have a single ext4 filesystem partition.

But when ...

Yes i added with value 1. I got excited that i would be able to add the partition and i did so. I hope it's not a big problem. Files are still there i can list them but only if i choose a none partition type in testdisk options.

So how should i proceed now? Should i run the fsck command to fix the ...

I have no idea why you can't write your partition into your partition table.
There is another possibility that your partition starts at cylinder 0 (it's normal), but head 0 should be 1.
Might be possible that this is the culprit?

Fiona
Wow!!! This surely is the possibility. Now i have the option ...

I would like to have the photos recovered with the folder name and date creation attributes.
Any way one last question. Will fsck delete any files?

There might be another trick to add your partition.
You could use the menu geometry to increase the amount of cylinder from 121601 to 121602 .
Don't change anything else.
In earlier TestDisk-versions, there was an option, it was called "Allow partial last cylinder, what did exactly this trick.
If ...