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formby1
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partition not visible

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This is my first post although I have read quite a few and I am hoping some one could give some advice.
My daughters wd elements 2tB external disk has suffered a broken usb connector.It was damaged when the cable was knocked side ways. after checking the connection internally the usb could not be repaired so I removed the pcb and bought another enclosure ( dynamode) and connected using sata connector and eternal power source through usb to my laptop which has testdisk on it. After connecting and running testdisk it would seem to show more than one disk.( excluding the laptop disk)
/dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C

Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C

Drive E: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C

I have tried to go thru testdisk step by step including a deeper scan but i still cannot get the drive to be recognised. I have managed to list all the files ( so I know at the moment I can at least save the most important files)I have included the log file upto analysing the HDD. any help from the info contained would be much appreciated thanks in advance

LOGFILE

Wed Mar 27 19:31:01 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows Vista (6002) SP2
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-03-25T17:15:35
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=119398162944
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=115639210496
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\E:)=2000395698176
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\F:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\F:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\F:
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD25 00BEVS-22UST, S/N:W -DXW3E80FE0634, FW:01.0
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C
Drive E: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63, sector size=4096 - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0, S/N:152D20337A0C

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
NTFS at 0/4/5
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
Info: size boot_sector 3907022848, partition 488377856
Current partition structure:
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
NTFS at 0/4/5
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
filesystem size 3907022848
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 244188927
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 2000 GB / 1863 GiB
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378880(30400/45/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378656(30400/42/11)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378672(30400/42/27)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378688(30400/42/43)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378704(30400/42/59)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378720(30400/43/12)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378736(30400/43/28)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378752(30400/43/44)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378768(30400/43/60)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378784(30400/44/13)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378800(30400/44/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378816(30400/44/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378832(30400/44/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378848(30400/45/14)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378864(30400/45/30)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378880(30400/45/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378881(30400/45/47)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488378882(30400/45/48)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,488378887(30400/45/53)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,488378889(30400/45/55)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,488378895(30400/45/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,488379136(30400/49/50)) lseek err Invalid argument

Results
* HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 2000 GB / 1863 GiB

interface_write()
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition
Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
NTFS at 0/4/5
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
Info: size boot_sector 3907022848, partition 488377856
Current partition structure:
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]

search_part()
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
NTFS at 0/4/5
Warning: number of bytes per sector mismatches 512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD)
filesystem size 3907022848
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 244188927
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 2000 GB / 1863 GiB

Results
* HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 2000 GB / 1863 GiB

interface_write()
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 4 5 30400 33 33 488377856 [kayleigh WD Drive]
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition
Partition table type (auto): None
Drive E: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - WDC WD20 EARX-32PASB0
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Drive E: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=117 sector=51
BAD_RS LBA=6579571 5870008
check_part_i386 1 type 70: no test
BAD_RS LBA=1953251627 4634015
check_part_i386 2 type 43: no test
BAD_RS LBA=225735265 4634074
check_part_i386 3 type 72: no test
Current partition structure:
1 * DiskSecure MB 409 142 41 119790 20 38 1917848077

Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=43 121584 74 6 234785 103 28 1818575915

Bad relative sector.
3 * Sys=72 14051 94 29 14051 94 38 10

Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * DiskSecure MB 409 142 41 119790 20 38 1917848077
3 * Sys=72 14051 94 29 14051 94 38 10

search_part()
Drive E: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 30400 255 63
Search for partition aborted

Results

interface_write()

No partition found or selected for recovery
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition

TestDisk exited normally.

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