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I got the advise from an article on another website to access the drive using Linux instead of Windows as the damaged filesystem is a Windows thing.
http://html5.litten.com/how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/
I am not familiar with Linux but could boot up using the PartedMagic cd and ...

Thanks you fo your help but I could recover the files without using PhotoRec in the end (see my other post).

Just to inform this forum that I managed to recover the files I wanted to recover from the HD. As described in my initial post the HD in my PC wanted to be formatted where it was working fine before. The only thing I did was disconnect the IDE cable and plug another HDD to the IDE kabel to uprade ...

Hi Fiona

Used TestDisk 7.1 WIN

This is the partition structure that I remember as being the correct one as I have partioned this HDD":
Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 15200 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors

Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
1 * HPFS - NTFS ...

does not work

c:\testdisk-7.1-WIP>fidentify_win photorec.sig
photorec.sig: unknown


also with other file name:
c:\testdisk-7.1-WIP>fidentify_win test.sig
test.sig: unknown

tried notepad file saved with ANSi code as well as UTF-8 code.

What do I do wrong?

I have started a new search but now only with .pst files to be recovered.

It did find 4 files but these were located in the second partition which I already copied the files using TestDisk. It did not find the .pst file that should be on he C (Primary) partition which is the partition I selected to ...

Hi there

I nbeed some help to make a custom signature.
I have tried it but did not work.

The file extention is .CbWgc
The content of the files starts with "CamBFile" (see attach screenprint of the hex editor)

So I use Notepad and typed:

pfi 0 "CamBFile"

and saved the notepad file as photorec ...

Hi Fiona

I don't know How to do that. If I install the HDD in the PC I cannot run Windows. I can only access it as a an external drive. Or perhaps install the HDD in my PC and run TestDisk 7.1 as a dos version with a boot-disk?

Or do you mean copy TestDisk.exe onto the drive (partition that is ...

Hi there. I can use some help.
I have an internal HDD which says need formatting but it was fine before. I have connect it now as a external drive and am running TestDisk for about a week now as it takes a lot of time to work on a 1TB disk and there are a lot of menu options in TestDisk that start ...

Hi there

I am trying to recover some files from a HDD.
I am specifically interested in a few files, Outlook .pst file and a Ciel datafile.

I have launched PhotoRec twice but aborted the recovery myself as the time it needed was increasing and increasing.

The first attempt I selected jpg, bmp, txt ...