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Doesn't look like a software fix is available for this, which is sad because the drive was working just fine and just died.
I was only able to recover about 1GB of usable data out of 75GB+ on the disk. I'll be tossing this into the box of Seagate problem drives and warning myself repeatedly to never ...

Ok forget it. The board will not allow me to upload the testdisk.log file, no matter what I change the file name or extension to read.

So here is the full contents in text format:

Your message contains 148854 characters. The maximum number of allowed characters is 60000. HAHAHAHA get me a hammer ...

Continuing...
After Deep Search discovers nothing new, try to Write again...
Capture7 wont write.JPG

Oh, goody. So now I get to the next menu..

Capture8 advanced menu.JPG

Hit enter and...

Capture9 Analyse.JPG

At this point we are back at the beginning, where hitting enter makes the 3 ...

OK I can't remember the name of part 1 as it is still in limboland, but anyway, right before the Deep Search ends, more partitions show up...
Capture4 deep search finds.JPG
But as soon as the Deep Search ends the original 3 show back up...
Capture5 done with deep search.JPG
I'm not sure what ...

This is exasperating!

I have an 80GB hard drive Seagate model 7200.7 which came with my wife's DELL computer running Windows XP.
It was working just fine, then there was an error and the computer stopped responding so I rebooted and got the dreaded "no operating system found- press 1 to retry ...