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I've got information about your Disk from your crosspost;
HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 45599 165 6 732558080 [My Book]
Unfortunatetly, Western Digital provides Data Lifeguard Diagnostic only to internal drives.
So it doesn't support a disk surface diagnose on USB.
CrystalDiskInfo reads your S.M.A.R.T-values ...

You can find Crystal Disk Info here;
http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en
WD My Book Tools are available here;
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=1&lang=en

Fiona
ok im at http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=125&lang=en which thing am i looking for?
and i installed ...

then clicked refresh in disk management and for some reason my partition is back
Nice to read it! 8-)
Looks like that Write worked, despite that error message?
Well, I've seen this message during the last couple of days a few times on EFI GPT.
Thanks for your information and should be forwarded ...

well i have to tell u something, when i pressed write and got the write error message i went back in to the testdisk and showed my [p] data list and while keeping it open on that page I then clicked refresh in disk management and for some reason my partition is back


is that normal when getting a ...

Please don't use the TestDisk 64-bit-Version but 32-bit.
Fiona

i just used the version that you get from here http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download


My Drive that im trying to recover partition for is:

3TB WD My Book Essential usb 3.0 External Hardrive
Formatted NTFS for xp/vista/7 ...

If you get I/O errors, CRC problems or the disk have bad sectors, you should clone the disk to a new empty one using GNU ddrescue as explained in http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk but how can it be damaged x.x i just got it 2 days ago ad all i did was delete the partition accadently ...

cgrenier wrote:If you are running TestDisk from Mac OS X, you need to umount the other partitions/eject the disk to be able to write a new partition table.

umm im running it on windows 7 64bit not a mac

it says petition: write error
and when i go in to deep search it says

Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 1 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 1 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 45599 165 6 732558080 [My Book]
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
Invalid ...

ok i moved all my files over to my back up 3tb drive so i could reformat the drive thoes files were on, but after formating my other drive, i accadently deleted the Backup 3tb drive that had all my files that i was gonna move back over.

ok i tried going threw the steps and i got to the part where ...