Basic Help on recovery of 2TB drive
Posted: 03 Feb 2013, 21:15
Hello,
I've lost access to a 2 TB drive that I really need to recover and I just wanted to get some basic idea of what to do with Testdisk since I'm not entirely clear on things after reading through the site.
The disk is a FAT 32 and was used on Windows and Mac machines. Somewhere along the line, both computers stopped recognizing the drive as readable and now Windows says I must format it before I can use it, MAC just doesn't do anything with it.
So, I followed the basic steps listed on the site and the program said it was analyzing and all that for about 10 hours. When it was done, I never saw the next window with any partitions listed so I'm not quite sure where I am in the process at this point.
I desperately want to recover the files on this disc and just wanted to make sure I've got this right.
I ran the program as indicated in the step by step but instead of having a list of partitions at the end of its scan, I'm back at the blank partition screen with no listed partitions.
I feel like I'm missing something basic here.
Any ideas what I'm missing if I never see a partition to work with?
Thanks,
Kevin
I've lost access to a 2 TB drive that I really need to recover and I just wanted to get some basic idea of what to do with Testdisk since I'm not entirely clear on things after reading through the site.
The disk is a FAT 32 and was used on Windows and Mac machines. Somewhere along the line, both computers stopped recognizing the drive as readable and now Windows says I must format it before I can use it, MAC just doesn't do anything with it.
So, I followed the basic steps listed on the site and the program said it was analyzing and all that for about 10 hours. When it was done, I never saw the next window with any partitions listed so I'm not quite sure where I am in the process at this point.
I desperately want to recover the files on this disc and just wanted to make sure I've got this right.
I ran the program as indicated in the step by step but instead of having a list of partitions at the end of its scan, I'm back at the blank partition screen with no listed partitions.
I feel like I'm missing something basic here.
Any ideas what I'm missing if I never see a partition to work with?
Thanks,
Kevin