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Apologies for cutting in your conversation, but your description brought some old memories back to life.

I take it that the disk with problems is the 2nd disk: dev/sdb WDC WD10EADS.
This makes the disk part of the (unfortunately infamous) Western Digital WD Green Series (manufactured ~2009)

Is ...

I'm not sure what else to do Fiona,
If this is all it gives in the log what could be the problem?
This was the full log after a cancelled quick scan and a full deep scan.

There doesn't seem to be that much more code, but after a deep scan that's all it gives me.

Hay Fiona
The deep search took a while.
Here's the log:


Tue Dec 1 13:57:22 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, September 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.9, Cygwin32 2002.0 ...

Hi Fiona,

I'll run a 3rd deepsearch using the version you reccomended, this time with a log.
I'll post the log after it's done.
I'm worried the Boot Sector might be scrambled.

Can you copy and paste the content of your testdisk.log into your next post?

Fiona

Hi Fiona
Thanks for responding.
I hope this was what you were after, it was the only file in the directory just called testdisk.
This is only a quick scan log as far as I know, I don't think I logged the deep ...

Hello,
I've been going almost solid through troubleshooting for 3 days with this external HDD. :cry: This drive was my backup and after my first was lost, this holds everything dear to me.
The first was 'lost at sea', quite literally it fell off a boat. Don't ask.
This backup drive was Transported ...