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I have strong belief my hdd has some initial sectors which are damaged physically, because surface test showed some bad sectors.

Set the partition 2 as *(bootable). On next screen, choose Write, confirm, BackupBS, confirm, Quit, restart your computer.
Run "cmd" (right click run as administrator), "chkdsk /f d:" (replace d: by the correct drive letter)

Alas, no success. I do as follows: Set the partition 2 as *(bootable ...

Hello everyone.

Two weeks ago I started this topic - https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/disk-management-saying-disk-not-initialized-t5898.html

Several days ago I finally managed to find another software which could at least show me the content of my corrupted data hdd. But I cannot proceed with ...

As administrator, run TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.
If it doesn't work, please post the testdisk.log file content.

I tried as described above but no success. Is it possible to do something about this ...

As administrator, run TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.
If it doesn't work, please post the testdisk.log file content.

I ran TestDisk and chose my HDD. Without pressing "Analyse" I pressed "Advanced" right ...

cgrenier wrote:As administrator, run TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.

Can it somehow affect data on the drive? Really don't want to lose it.

Hello everybody here. My issue is as follows:


My laptop has 2 drives: a 120Gb SSD with Windows 7-64 on it and a 1Tb HDD with all data.

Windows Disk Management shows 1Tb HDD as unallocated and suggests initializing. I haven't performed this operation yet because I'm highly afraid this might affect ...