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There are CRC errors, it means the disk contains bad sectors. You should clone the disk to a new empty disk (can be bigger) using ddrescue from a Linux LIveCD/USB. Once it's done, remove the original disk and try to access your data on the clone.
Here is an old tutorial about ddrescue https://www ...

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Hi Everyone,

I have an external Seagate USB drive where I have important office stuff. Plugged it in tonight only to get the drive is not formatted message. I had used it the night before and it was working fine. In fact, used it to retrieve some files off of it.

Testdisk crashes when I list the ...

Btw, Fiona, I just remembered one thing; the Win7 drive had a "system reserved" partition of about 100MB.

Maybe that's whats throwing off the rescue apps? Or maybe we can recreate the partitions having this in mind? Just a thought.

restorer ultimate and scan your drive.
Fiona

Hi Fiona,

Sorry for not writing back earlier. I guess I have given up.

Downloaded Restorer Ultimate and got the same exact output as earlier. It gave me a bunch of mp3 (tens of thousands) and a few here and there. This obviously doesn't seem correct ...

I think I'll download the commercial software ava see what I come up with.

Let's hope for the best.

I'll report back!

Hi Fiona,

The list of files PhotoRec has found is really not right. The hard drive that I am scanning used to my OS (Win7) drive and had all the program files.

The extensions it has found is:
mp3: 12180 recovered
txt: 23 recovered
ogg: 17 recovered
tib: 4 recovered
gz: 3 recovered
gpg: 2 ...

Many thanks Fiona for your response. I will try this immediately and hope for the best

--Sadiq

I've only got some information that you've changed your partition type Fat16<32M to NTFS using the menu Advanced / Type.
As the result, either there is no NTFS boot sector or both are invalid?
Did you already run RebuildBS?

When you were running Quick and Deeper Search, did you get any message of ...

I've only got some information that you've changed your partition type Fat16<32M to NTFS using the menu Advanced / Type.
As the result, either there is no NTFS boot sector or both are invalid?
Did you already run RebuildBS?

When you were running Quick and Deeper Search, did you get any message of ...