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Thank you for your very impressive reply. It's too bad that my ability to absorb and comprehend it is quite limited.

It seems to me, the way data is stored, retrieved and rearranged on a hard drive platter is illogical and unnecessarily complicated. I guess not, though. It works...and for the most ...

Fiona! Fiona! Fiona!

My 'bad' drive is suddenly back to normal. How do you suppose that happened?
Golly, If I knew, I could make a fortune in no time!

Thanks, again

Doug

Fiona,

I have made a mistake. I thought when I opened 'G', I should see my copied files, there. I did not realize til just now, that TestDisk had created a separate 'page' within 'G', and placed my copied files there. All are not there because I had aborted the operation before it had finished. Now ...

My problem now, is that when I select the two dots and press enter, after selecting files to be copied, nothing happens.

When I went back to TestDisk.exe, to try again, I saw this log. I'm not sure, but I think it's from my last try. Maybe it will show what I'm doing wrong. Now, I will try your way.





Wed Dec 30 01:13:38 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER ...

The way you describe is the way I did it the first time, except that I directed it to Directory G and there was no folder or partition shown (at least, no partition as I remember), and the files did not show up in G. That's why I thought It might work better if a specific folder was the destination ...

I am not familiar with partitions. I have never partitioned this drive. Unless it was partitioned when I bought it from WD, then it is not.

Since waiting to hear from you, I tried some things on my own. After having to rebuild the boot sector, I was able to list my files. Now I am in the process of ...

To whoever helps me with this issue:

For what it's worth,

With different software, (requiring purchase for recovery), I am able to see the data on this drive. All 424 GB are there and all seem to be in perfect order. Apparently, the filesystem is not damaged. How do I get TestDisk to find and show ...

I'm new here. I just now read several threads on the repair of the filesystem with TestDisk and some instructions for doing so. I know little about this end of computers. With TestDisk stating only that the filesystem seems damaged, how does one know what steps to take? Could it be the MBR? Could it ...