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Hello,

I have a 1tb WD Blue that was split into two partitions (Win 7 on one, data on the other) both in NTFS. The drive died and I'm trying to recover what I can. Using TestDisk, I was able to view and copy some files from the smaller OS partition but not the data partition. I get the error ...

I've looked into how to take file ownership, and I believe I've done everything I can but still can't open these images. Is there any way you guys can check for me? I'll attach the image here. Thank you so much.

Guess my question should lead to the files themselves. If a Jpg is recovered, does it always mean it's a jpg? Why wouldn't I be able to view it?

Hey guys,

I just used TestDisk to copy files from a bad hard drive to an external and I'm having problems going to the files here. TestDisk was able to recover about 800 gigs of data, and that's about how much I had stored on that bad hard drive. When I look at the files that were recovered, there ...

Fiona, it looks like you were right. I plugged the HDD into the laptop SATA port and testdisk was able to read it a lot better. It was even able to find my directory of documents and photos and copy them over to an external. However, I'm having troubles with the photos. The file names and sizes are ...

Yes, I'll get started on that and post results. Thank you!

The Jmicron controller is a SATA to USB cable. That's what I'm using to connect the HDD to my windows 7 environment. Would it be better to directly connect the HDD to the SATA port on the laptop?

I did a scan and it found nothing but read errors. It seemed like every sector gave an error! Do I keep going with a deeper search? At the end of the search, it said "No partition found or selected for recovery". Here's the edited log, the unedited one was nearly 700 megabytes!


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Didn't get anywhere with testdisk, so I'm using photorec win to try and get RAW, JPG, and RAF pictures back. It's been going for 3 days now and it's halfway through Pass 1 but no files have been found. Should I have seen some recovered files by now? I had it search through the disk (not ...

To the mods: I've asked for help on another hard drive with a similar story, but this is a separate case. Thanks!

1tb WD Blue laptop drive that windows 7 wants to format. Windows will show my partitions (I made two on this drive) but won't pull up data. Testdisk shows that it has a bad filesystem ...