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any advice, would reformatting the disk help since partition is removed?

@cgrenier i used photorec on free space but it found nothing ... whats going on, i dont know what to do and its taken forever to finish

I ended up choosing partition type NONE and was able to use the list option, this only listed the files i can currently access on the Hdd as for Undelete it said no files were deleted ??

Do not search partitions inside a partition (I:), it's useless.
Try TestDisk, Advanced, List. Do you see your files ? Does it give better results when using Undelete ?


When i access the advanced menu, i am given 2 options change types and create an image, for now i have created an image, which ...

After installing a new HDD, computer failed to boot and external HDD was connected, fixed the boot problem and windows 7 started normally, that's when i noticed that my 5tb external Seagate HDD had defaulted to its original name and all files had vanished except for one folder which is about 500gb ...