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Thanks again Fiona. Looks like Monsieur Grenier already spotted that problem and fixed it for me, but I do appreciate it all the same!

My problem now is that nothing writes when I restart my computer. In fact, nothing happens at all. TestDisk promises that the changes will be applied when I reboot ...

Awesome, yeah changing the Options worked; both drives are now recognized.

But the problem still persists: TestDisk still asks me to reboot in order for the changes to take effect (for it to write the new partition structure I assume), but when I reboot, it does nothing . The drive still isn't ...

And here's the Analyze window:

Analyze window 1 (3-16-12).jpg

The Quick Search window shows this:

After quick search 1 (3-16-12).jpg

I do this, and then press Enter:

After quick search 2 (3-16-12).jpg

It asks me to Reboot. I do. When Windows comes back, nothing happens, and I don't know ...

Here's the log file. I do hope this helps - thank you so much!

Wed Mar 14 14:21:28 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.3, Cygwin 1007.7 ...

Hello all. This is my first time posting, so I hope it's okay that I start off with a dire plea for help. And I apologize in advance: I'm no idiot around computers, but I'm also nowhere near an expert at this stuff. I'll try to be as specific as I can.

See, I have this external drive that I got a ...