Testdisk cannot find my partition, 1tb of data at risk

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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Danny247
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Testdisk cannot find my partition, 1tb of data at risk

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Hey everyone, I've done some searching around and haven't been able to find a solution. I've scanned my hard disk multiple times with "testdisk", and it always comes up with the same result of not being able to find my partition. I don't know what might have caused this, but one day I just turned on my computer and Windows 7 showed my drive as "RAW" fileformat and as 100% disk space free. I really need to recover my data, it's everything that I've worked on for the past 7 years! If someone can help my analyze the logs that were created from testdisk below, it would really be appreciated. Thanks!

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Wed Apr  3 14:56:12 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, September 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 3.7.9-pmagic (#1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 17 18:16:24 CST 2013) i686
Compiler: GCC 4.7
Compilation date: 2013-02-16T11:38:45
ext2fs lib: 1.42.7, ntfs lib: libntfs-3g, reiserfs lib: 0.3.0.5, ewf lib: none
/dev/sda: LBA, HPA, LBA48, DCO support
/dev/sda: size       125045424 sectors
/dev/sda: user_max   125045424 sectors
/dev/sda: native_max 125045424 sectors
/dev/sda: dco        125045424 sectors
/dev/sdb: LBA, LBA48, DCO support
/dev/sdb: size       488397168 sectors
/dev/sdb: user_max   488397168 sectors
/dev/sdb: dco        488397168 sectors
/dev/sdc: LBA, HPA, LBA48, DCO support
/dev/sdc: size       1953525168 sectors
/dev/sdc: user_max   1953525168 sectors
/dev/sdc: native_max 1953525168 sectors
/dev/sdc: dco        1953525168 sectors
Warning: can't get size for Disk /dev/mapper/control - 0 B - 1 sectors, sector size=512
/dev/sr0 is not an ATA disk
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 64 GB / 59 GiB - CHS 7783 255 63, sector size=512 - Corsair CSSD-V64GB2, S/N:11116526000010211561, FW:2.2
Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1, S/N:WD-WMANK3939214, FW:10.02E02
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD1001FALS-00U9B0, S/N:WD-WMATV9393469, FW:05.00K05
Disk /dev/sdj - 2016 MB / 1923 MiB - CHS 1008 63 62, sector size=512 - Sony MSAC-UAM2, FW:1.00
Disk /dev/sr0 - 4431 MB / 4226 MiB - 2163904 sectors (RO), sector size=2048 - Optiarc DVD RW AD-7261S, FW:1.03

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WDC WD1001FALS-00U9B0
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 07
Current partition structure:
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
 1 * HPFS - NTFS              0  32 33 121601  25 24 1953519616
 1 * HPFS - NTFS              0  32 33 121601  25 24 1953519616

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
BAD_RS LBA=4236162977 3110998
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 0E
     FAT16 LBA            263688 242 12 472518 129 18 3354846838
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=4236162977, size=3354846838, end=3296042518, disk end=1953525168)
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 3886 GB / 3619 GiB)
The following partition can't be recovered:
     FAT16 LBA            263688 242 12 472518 129 18 3354846838

Results

interface_write()
 
No partition found or selected for recovery

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