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Well I did a deeper search and was able to find my lost partition.
What freaked me out was when I pressed Q and then enter, I somehow ended up in the "select drive" screen.
I thought I had to do the deep search again. After mucking about and choosing "backup BS", I was able to find the "Write ...

Quick search gave me the error log that I've posted above. All the files shows up as a garbled mess. Are you saying that deeper search is a waste of my time?

Is there any other solutions than PhotoRec?

Long story short.
This drive I tried to recovered was on windows 7 and it was accelerated with intel rapid storage technology.
I then upgraded to windows 10 without undoing this.
Windows kept on crashing, so I went back windows 7.
Back to windows 7, the hard-drive suddenly shows up as unformatted/RAW.
I somehow went back to windows 10 again and ran testdisk. I ran quick scan and received this log file. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Any advice would be appreciated.




Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Interface Advanced
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 07
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 243200 203 11 3907018752

ntfs_boot_sector
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 243200 203 11 3907018752
filesystem size 1 7889892233288307698
sectors_per_cluster 0 57
mft_lcn 0 2331110192
mftmirr_lcn 0 606914529
clusters_per_mft_record 0 64
clusters_per_index_record 0 -99
Boot sector
Status: Bad

Backup boot sector
Status: Bad

Sectors are not identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
rebuild_NTFS_BS
mft at 16
ntfs_find_mft: mft_lcn 786432
ntfs_find_mft: mftmirr_lcn 2
ntfs_find_mft: sectors_per_cluster 8
ntfs_find_mft: mft_lcn 786432
ntfs_find_mft: mftmirr_lcn 2
ntfs_find_mft: mft_record_size 1024
ntfs_find_mft: index_block_size 4096
New / Current boot sector
filesystem size 3907018752 1
sectors_per_cluster 8 0
mft_lcn 786432 0
mftmirr_lcn 2 0
clusters_per_mft_record -10 0
clusters_per_index_record 1 0
Extrapolated boot sector and current boot sector are different.
filesystem size 3907018752 1
sectors_per_cluster 8 0
mft_lcn 786432 0
mftmirr_lcn 2 0
clusters_per_mft_record -10 0
clusters_per_index_record 1 0

ntfs_boot_sector
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 243200 203 11 3907018752
filesystem size 1 7889892233288307698
sectors_per_cluster 0 57
mft_lcn 0 2331110192
mftmirr_lcn 0 606914529
clusters_per_mft_record 0 64
clusters_per_index_record 0 -99
Boot sector
Status: Bad

Backup boot sector
Status: Bad

Sectors are not identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 07
Current partition structure:
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 243200 203 11 3907018752
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 243200 203 11 3907018752
No partition is bootable

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
BAD_RS LBA=2991118879 5084706
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 04
FAT16 <32M 186188 137 29 192073 160 51 94543997
BAD_RS LBA=3841799935 4246609
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 01
FAT12 239140 251 23 384976 143 31 2342848545
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=3841799935, size=2342848545, end=6184648479, disk end=3907029168)
file_pread(5,2,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031039(243201/110/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,14,buffer,3907031041(243201/110/47)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031055(243201/110/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031102(243201/111/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,8,buffer,3907031118(243201/111/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,11,buffer,3907031165(243201/112/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,3907033087(243201/143/14)) lseek err Invalid argument
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! (< 3166 GB / 2949 GiB)
The following partition can't be recovered:
FAT12 239140 251 23 384976 143 31 2342848545

Results
L FAT16 <32M 186188 137 29 192073 160 51 94543997


dir_partition inode=0
L FAT16 <32M 186188 137 29 192073 160 51 94543997
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