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PhotoRec did manage to reconstruct nearly all of my data on the disk - but it mixed up several .mpg files. A lot of them have beginning, middle and/or endings of different files. Also it has merged and split up a lot of files. So if there is another way or chance to repair the drive any help would ...

The drive is formatted as NTFS. It was partitoned under Windows XP. I tried 6.14 but got the same results. Logfile attached.

Thanks,
Alex S.



Fri Apr 6 16:28:16 2012
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
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What happens if PhotoRec finds more than one file with the same name? Does it rename the file to someting like _0001.extension or is there an error message displayed? There were/are a lot of files with the same name on the drive.

Would a communication in german be easier?

Thanks,
Alex S.

The only message I get is "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged." It is the same if I choose 'List' or 'Undelete'.
In 'Boot' 'Repair MFT' I get the message "MFT and MFT Mirror are bad. Failed to repair them."

Should I create an image with 'Image Creation' before I try anyting else ...

Thank you for the quick answer. I've added a screenshot of the result. What I am worried about is that TestDisk seems to think that the disk size is 2TB or am I misinterpreting the "1953520002" value? Could it be that the MBR or something else was transfered from my 2TB disk to my 1TB disk and that ...

Hello!

I have a Problem. Upon switching off my hardddrive (in an external case - Sharkoon) from my settopbox and switching it back on on my PC (same external case) it was not recognized by my PC anymore. I was prompted to format the drive - which I of course did not do. I used TestDisks Step by ...