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by Mike01
21 Apr 2016, 13:43
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

never mind I give up time for some recovery software!
by Mike01
21 Apr 2016, 10:45
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

ok new day new start.
First as I said last night I managed to accidentally create a new partition on the drive of 746.39 gb of unallocated space.
After reading a couple of old threads I have removed my D drive leaving only C and the problem E drives, easily distinguishable.
I will run testdisk to ...
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 22:47
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

Well I messed that up back to the start, drive is now showing 3 partitions in windows.
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 19:22
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

trying rebuild bootsector option now will post results.
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 17:33
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

testdisk logfile:
ed Apr 20 17:21:38 2016
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 4.9, MinGW 3.11
Compilation date: Apr 18 2015 13:02:07
ext2fs lib: none, ntfs lib ...
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 17:25
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

returned to previous screen selected list got the response cant open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged.
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 17:20
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

ok managed to change this to HPFS-NTFS in Type.
Selected Boot but don't get the option "List"?
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Partition Start End ...
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 17:10
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Re: Drive unreadable please help a novice

selected physical drive 1, proceed, testdisk selected EFI GPT as partition type obviously this is wrong so I selected intel-enter, advanced enter and I'm shown this:
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk ...
by Mike01
20 Apr 2016, 14:02
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Drive unreadable please help a novice
Replies: 9
Views: 5513

Drive unreadable please help a novice

Hi I know that similar problems have been posted numerous times but hope someone will help me.
I have 2 near identical Seagate 3tb drives as storage.
I unexpectedly lost power now I cant access one of my drives, the one containing all my family photos vids .
I have tried to use testdisk myself but I ...