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Testdisk only sees my Windows Drive.
The drive in question does not show in Test Disk.
It is connected internally with SATA.
I am running Windows 7.

A WD blue 500 GB drive "disappeared" from my file system.
It is still visible in the BIOS and the Intel App recognizes the drive, but with unknown features.
TestDisk does not recognize it.

Any idea what I could do ?

Thanks!

Hello!

A windows 7 PC does not start with an error message: "Error loading operation system"
I ran viva disk analyzer and found and 417 NOT READY errors

Now in TestDisk I Analyze and get "Partition: Read error"
Quick search shows the missing partitions and I can list files but when I want to write ...

Not for the first time I was able to recover my data using TestDisk
I wish I could give more!

no idea what triggered it, but the disk is operational again

For those wo are as blind as I was, there is a step by step guide on this site.

Test Disk seems to be the ultimate tool if one understands what is going on.
Where can one find some knowledge about partitions / tables / MBR etc that helps using Test Disk?

Thank you

Hello,
out of the blue my external HD does not recognize the first out of 3 Partitions anymore.
Partition G shows as unformatted, H and J are fine.

Analyzing with Test Disk showed a wrong number of heads per cylinder.
After changing that and analyzing again the partition in question now shows as ...

I am not exactly sure what triggered it, but the HD Works on my PC again. Only connecting it to my TV still does not work. Not sure if themismatch of boot sector and backup is related to that.

I will shrink the volumen and create a 2nd partition to see if that helps, for chkdsk did not.

I will ...

Hello and thank you for TestDisk!

I have an issue, that must be pretty standard in the world of data losses.

My 1TB external HD tells me that it is not formatted anymore and I was told that the data system is now RAW. It only has one partition and I believe it should be NTSC.

Instead of asking an ...