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I ran error scan in HD Tune Pro overnight, somehow when I came home from work the program was closed?. However, I was able to get a screenshot at the very beginning (after 1.5hr)

http://i.imgur.com/fU7WvUfh.jpg

At this rate, I don't suspect the HD will be in any desirable condition. Guess will ...

Guess this is what you were talking about MBR not writable anymore?

This is what the system shows when I check the disk management console.



so...guess I should initialize it? (what happens to the existing files if I initialize the disk??)

Thanks Fiona,

I notice something when I was copying files to a unaffected disk. Say if I have a video file in the external HDD i'm trying to rescue that is 53MB, but the copied file via Testdisk is only 40MB, which makes the video unplayable. Is there any way to tackle that? (i've tried re-copy ...

Think I might have figured out why it failed to copy files at 1st try. Somehow the default directory is faulty, so I manually entered the location where the files should be copied to. Now it's copying slowly but surely. Hopefully all files will be copied.

Will post later with results. Thank you ...

Hi Fiona,

Thanks again for the help. I just followed your instructions on the last post. I was able to list the files in the hard drive by pressing "p" and gone through all the file selections and copy selected files. However, the copying process isn't fun.
it says "copying, please wait... 0 ok ...

Hi Fiona,

Thank you for your response. I was able to get the HDD recognized again by unplugging and plugging in the USB over and over (at this stage, Minitool was able to recognize the disk as well, I can see browse the files in there).
Then I used Testdisk again, to change the partition from * to ...

Hi to all experts,

Please, need some help here. I have a WD My Passport SE 750G external hard drive that was accidentally dropped to the ground from sitting on top of the computer tower while it was on. The hard drive did not go offline for another hour or so (though it did show signs of slow down ...