Need help finding lost partition. I think.
Posted: 27 May 2014, 18:24
Hello everyone. Sorry to bother, but I have an issue with my external and I think you all may be able to help. I have a 1TB WD external that I've been using for 3 years with no issues until this morning when I booted up my computer and got an error message stating that my drive needed reformatting. I don't want to lose any data, so I've spent the morning trying to restore the drive to its former glory. Here's what I've done so far:
-run chkdsk, gotten the message "The type of the file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted."
-downloaded HDDScan and scanned the drive, gotten correct model/serial number/etc and a report that showed normal results (assuming that's what green means) except for a current pending errors count.
-downloaded Partition Find and Mount, run both a fast and normal scan which found no partitions; running a full scan now.
-used TestDisk, analyzing the drive returned 1 partition, HPFS-NTFS, with Start: 0 32 33, End: 121597 37 40, and size in sectors 1953456128" Below that, it reads "No partition is bootable." Quick search reveals the same parition, but listing it returns "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
I'm not quite sure where to go from here, and some decent internet searching has revealed problems a little different from mine. Any help would be appreciated - I'd love to avoid spending serious change on a new drive, and I really do need the stuff on this one. Thanks in advance, and please let me know if I can provide any further information!
In case it's relevant, I'm running Windows 7.
-run chkdsk, gotten the message "The type of the file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted."
-downloaded HDDScan and scanned the drive, gotten correct model/serial number/etc and a report that showed normal results (assuming that's what green means) except for a current pending errors count.
-downloaded Partition Find and Mount, run both a fast and normal scan which found no partitions; running a full scan now.
-used TestDisk, analyzing the drive returned 1 partition, HPFS-NTFS, with Start: 0 32 33, End: 121597 37 40, and size in sectors 1953456128" Below that, it reads "No partition is bootable." Quick search reveals the same parition, but listing it returns "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
I'm not quite sure where to go from here, and some decent internet searching has revealed problems a little different from mine. Any help would be appreciated - I'd love to avoid spending serious change on a new drive, and I really do need the stuff on this one. Thanks in advance, and please let me know if I can provide any further information!
In case it's relevant, I'm running Windows 7.