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Ok I reattached it to the same circuit board, and I expect better results now. I did Quick Search, and deeper, and got these results. It is seeing 2 Fat32 LBA now:




Tue Mar 20 03:06:11 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier ...

If you get it decrypted, it shouldnt be a problem.
TestDisk finds your partition using boot sectors and their backup.
So you can register your partitions into your partition table.
But decryption should be done first.

Do I need to change drive type and cylinders back to what they were before I ...

Fiona wrote:Maybe hardware encryptet?
I assume that you didn't do anything about encryption?
So it might be important to get it repaired or another enclosure to test it.

Yes, it is hardware encrypted. The circuit board has a key chip on it

It is very possible , and likely, now that I see this link. This seems to be my exact problem. Now that I think about it, this is my problem . Basically, I tried photorec to see what I could recover, and I got a bunch of nonsense 2-8 GB files.

However, since Windows 7 wrote a MBR and drive letter ...

I don't understand how this could be so difficult.

The USB input on the external drive circuit board came out, so for a while I held the connector to the circuit board in order to get some files off of it (assuming that when I had the chance to plug it into my desktop, that I would be able to ...

Sat Mar 17 19:31:29 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7600)
Compiler: GCC 4.3, Cygwin 1007.7
Compilation date: 2011-11-15T08:36:54
ext2fs lib: 1.41.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0 ...

Ok, then here is the latest log/screenshots



Fri Mar 16 07:05:16 2012
Command line: TestDisk

Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www ...

I had to go through the whole thing on RebuildFS, so it took 4 hours, and it still had the same result.

This time I attached the log because it was longer
http://www.mediafire.com/?x7403dwge47qlx8

i posted the log of the diagnosis above, from the RebuildFS, as it didnt work

It's only a diagnose.
Until you don't confirm at Write, you'll change nothing.
So you shouldn't write anything and it's intended only for diagnosis purposes.
Currently your partition is aligned on megabyte boundary.
I selected the default MBR option. On top of that, I assigned the drive a letter ...