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Here is the screen that I was in when I began the search. At this point, I hit the enter button (Quick Search was highlighted). I didn't hit P. I'm sorry, but can you tell me what screen I should be in to do that?


TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, January 2016
Christophe GRENIER <grenier ...

After running that, I followed the software's guidance. Here is a copy of the screens showing what I did. Currently, it's running a deeper search.

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, January 2016
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB ...

and part 5:

file_pread(5,8,buffer,976773163(60801/80/59)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773163(60801/80/59)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773220(60801/81/53)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976775133(60801/112/13)) lseek err Invalid ...

part 4:

file_pread(5,1,buffer,976774544(60801/102/54)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976774545(60801/102/55)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976774546(60801/102/56)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976774547(60801/102/57)) lseek err Invalid ...

part 3:

file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773840(60801/91/43)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773841(60801/91/44)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773842(60801/91/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773843(60801/91/46)) lseek err Invalid argument ...

Part 2:

MS Data 934807552 976771071 41963520
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 21 GB / 20 GiB
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773152(60801/80/48)) ReadFile ??????????????????

file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773153(60801/80/49)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,976773154(60801/80/50)) lseek err Invalid ...

Thank you so much for your response, Fiona. I followed your suggestion of using 7.1 32 bit (note: I believe my computer is a 64bit computer). The contents of the log are rather long - too long for a single post(max: 60,000 characters). I'll split it up over multiple posts. I hope they prove helpful ...

First, thank you so much for the program. I was able to recover files from my hard drive so I'm ecstatic at this point.

Though I knew how to use computers about 30 years ago, technology has passed me by and I don't have a clue what I'm doing anymore. When I read the threads in this forum giving ...