Hello, this is my first request for support, so I apologize if I left out any necessary information.
A co-worker was copying a large file to a data drive on a Windows 2003 server when the drive "suddenly disappeared." After his attempted reboot didn't work at making the server recognize it again, I pulled the drive and put it in an external USB enclosure to see if I could access it from my laptop. I ran TestDisk Analyse, Quick Search and Deeper Search, but it could not find any partitions.
The hard drive is 150GB, non-bootable, NTFS, and it contained one partition for the full size of the drive. Unfortunately, I don't know what the label of the partition was.
I tried to upload the log file as an attachment but kept getting a message that the file extensions I tried were not allowed, so below is a copy and paste of the log:
Mon Feb 24 16:20:10 2014
Command line: TestDisk
TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-07-30T14:08:52
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)=500107862016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=150039945216
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=500107862016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=150039945216
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=482821013504
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD50 00LPVT-22G33, S/N:W -DXW153CW26475, FW:01.0
Disk /dev/sdb - 150 GB / 139 GiB - CHS 18241 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD15 00ADFD-00NLR5, FW:7QR5
Partition table type default to Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 150 GB / 139 GiB - WDC WD15 00ADFD-00NLR5
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 150 GB / 139 GiB - CHS 18241 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 150 GB / 139 GiB - CHS 18241 255 63
file_pread(5,2,buffer,293048320(18241/105/41)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,293048320(18241/105/41)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,293048319(18241/105/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,14,buffer,293048321(18241/105/42)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,293048335(18241/105/56)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,293048382(18241/106/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,8,buffer,293048398(18241/106/56)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,11,buffer,293048445(18241/107/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,293050367(18241/138/9)) lseek err Invalid argument
Results
interface_write()
No partition found or selected for recovery
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 150 GB / 139 GiB - CHS 18241 255 63
file_pread(5,2,buffer,293048320(18241/105/41)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,293048320(18241/105/41)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,293048319(18241/105/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,14,buffer,293048321(18241/105/42)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,293048335(18241/105/56)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,293048382(18241/106/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,8,buffer,293048398(18241/106/56)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,11,buffer,293048445(18241/107/40)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,293050367(18241/138/9)) lseek err Invalid argument
Results
interface_write()
No partition found or selected for recovery
simulate write!
write_mbr_i386: starting...
Store new MBR code
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition
TestDisk exited normally.
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Thanks very much in advance for any assistance provided!
Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55
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