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Thanks for your reply, Fiona.

Basically, i'd been trying to fix this hard drive for about 2 weeks before joining this forum for help, but i'm guessing i must have messed it up somewhere along the line.

Luckily i recently backed up my data to 2 other hard drives before this on crashed, but i was ...

I would suggest to have try to rebuild your boot sector.
Start TestDisk.
Confirm through until you see the menu Analyse.
Don't confirm at Analyse but Advanced.
Confirm at Boot with enter also.
Please, upload a screen to check your backup of the boot sector.
Highlight Rebuild BS and hit Enter ...

Ok, thanks.
I'll get back to you once the bs rebuild finishes.
cheers

and i don't know if this helps my cause, but yesterday i was following one of your replies to another post and here is the screenshot when i attempted to rebuild the bs

I've started the 'bs rebuild', which i'm guessing would take hours to complete, but i thought maybe you should see this screen.

Thanks.

Thank you for your prompt reply.
I will do that and get back to you.
Cheers

Basically, the 2tb samsung hard drive was a second internal data hard drive.

About 2 wks ago i uninstalled a freeware which forced a restart and since then i haven't been able to access the data hard drive . All i've been getting is error msg: 'the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable'. It ...