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Hi Fiona, thanks for the reply. I made the changes you suggested - the output from the log is below. Attempting to list the files still gives the "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged" error.

The message for the Geometry that says that current heads per sector is 16 "but the correct ...

Here's the output from the systemrescuecd commands - I don't know if this helps to shed any more light on the problem:

% archiver probe simple

[======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]
[sdb ] [WDC WD20EARS-00J ] [ 1.82 TB] [ 8] [ 16]

[=====DEVICE ...

Should I try changing the geometry as suggested by this output, or is that not necessary since the deep search did find the partition?

Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 3876021 16 63

Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 16
but the correct value may be 32.
You can use the ...

After the deep search finished, this is the output:

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011

Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 3876021 16 63

The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! (< 3753 GB / 3495 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection ...

I have a Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drive WDC WD20EARS-00J2GB0 (WD-WCAYY0004653) that has been corrupted in a machine I have that continuously BSODs. Chkdsk says it cannot check this drive because of a corrupt MFT.

I ran TestDisk on a different machine and the quick search found nothing, but ...