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I don't actually know for sure whether it was GPT or MBR, do you know how I can find out for sure? And whether it makes a difference in trying to recover?

I assume the hard drive would have been NTFS. It's not a boot disk by the way though.

I'm away from my PC until after the weekend (holidays ...

And here's the analysis using completely default settings (default geometry, EFI) - attached (word count too large).
Now it tells me partition "MS Data", with "NTFS, blocksize 4096, 2000GB/1863" at the bottom, but still the 'harddisk seems too small (<4000GB)' error message at the top.

:S

My 'hard disk seems too small'?? This was from an analysis using default geometry, as Intel/PC.
Also, below is a screenshot of a hard drive scan using AOMEI - some damaged sectors, but mostly green. I'm optimistic. Let me know what you think

Mon Apr 27 06:39:18 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.25
Compilation date: 2015-04-09T12:52:46
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib ...

Thanks for your input!
Sorry, I'm just learning as I'm going, and not familiar with knoppix.
CrystalDiscInfo:
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CrystalDiskInfo 6.3.1 (C) 2008-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info ...

Ok guys, I need some help : (
Have a 2TB HDD (Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001) acting as D:/ with Win7 installed on SSD (C:/).
Disc mainly contains programs, documents and photos. No backup available (mistake 1).
Was previously working fine, however last week I decided I’d try overclocking my CPU a ...