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i gave up.
i can only recover individual files.
thx

unfortunately the commercial program is not able to recover the filesystem.
do u think i can do anything else with testdisk?

I get 'MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Failed to repair them.'
Is there any hope?
Log follows:

Sat Apr 29 02:52:05 2017
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2017
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler ...

After a reboot i run it:
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk d: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.

Bear in mind that even though I could see some folder structure in 'APR', i cannot see it now when I double click D inside that application ...

This is how I recovered the volume after I deleted it.
This is where I stand before receiving your post.

I will now follow your instructions.
I will reboot and try chkdsk again and report back to you.

Hi CG and thanks for replying.

As I was at a loss on how to proceed, I tried some things with 'active partition recovery'.
I tried its 'fix boot sector' option and it copied the boot sector over from a backup. Now all copies look the same.
2017-04-27_11-58-21.png

Then I tried to 'recover' the ...

Sat Apr 22 13:31:20 2017
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2017
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 5.4, Cygwin 2005.2
ext2fs lib: 1.43.1, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib ...

Here is the latest log in the post below as the forum will not allow txt or log attachments.

As I was given 2 options I chose the first one, and went to the next screen to 'P' the files.
Unfortunately it told me that no files could be shown because
'MS Data 264192 5860532223 5860268032
NTFS ...

The QUick search is done with a weird result:

2017-04-25_11-04-36.png

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2017
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63

The harddisk (3000 GB / 2794 GiB) seems too ...

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