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I had a drive that was starting to get bad sectors so I ran a deep scan using test disk. Prior to this it would still mount and i was readable. Now I can't access it at all. I dont have a windows computer just a linux one, what the hell happened? Also the last tie i did this it redid hte mfy in ...

When I tried to copy the original boot sector to the backup, it says this:

Write error: Can't overwrite NTFS backup boot sector

I mistakenly deleted a 350 gb folder full of movies. I immediately unmounted the disk, bought a 2TB drive to save the recovered files on, and went to work. After three days, theres 400 some odd files that have been recovered according to testdisk, but the folder that i directed it to save to is ...

I'd be interested to know about this as well, as I've heard a rumor that WD drives have some sort of encryption that the board in the external case decodes.

I got a new cloned pcb board for the drive I had posted about before, and now partitions are showing up. Sort of.

When I get to the quick search portion of the menu, I got this. Which doesn't make sense to me because the drive wasnt Linux, and definitely didn't have this many partitions.

Disk /dev ...

Is there any chance having the pcb board cloned might fix this problem? I'm told it is often damaged in power surges like the one I did.

Does the MBR right in the same place as where the partition is stored? If so I might be in trouble, I think i might have let testdisk write a new one trying to fix this bad boot error.

Before I buy a new hard disk, it also says invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot. Is this something I need to correct before I clone, or can it be fixed on the cloned drive?

Below is my log, in case there are any other problems.
TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier ...

I was fumbling in the dark for the power cable to my backup drive, and I accidentally plugged my laptop adapter into my WD My Book. That resulted in a loud bang and a puff of smoke.

So I tore the drive out of the enclosure, and added it as a third drive. It shows up as the correct hard drive in ...