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As added information, I have some screen captures on when I started to use TestDisk in searching for the partition, switching the Geometry to 240, performing Deep Scan to find it, writing, then copying the backup boot sector to the bad boot sector. I hope these screen captures can facilitate your ...

Attached here is the log file as a result of the rerun of the Analyse, Quick Scan and Deep Scan. Sincerely appreciate your attention to the matter, Fiona.

Thank you for responding Fiona. Does this mean that I should have used 255 heads instead of 240? I switch only because it did not find the partition and this message appeared:


pTestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
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I have an HP Pavilion Elite whose Mobo failed and appears to have damaged the HDD. After reading through this active forum, I transferred the HDD to a working PC and have gone through the steps using TestDisk. The HDD had two partitions and initially, TestDisk could only find one used by HP labeled ...