Can I throw my (long-winded) voice in here for a similar problem - and point to some of the same images? Also, I really rambled, so you may want to skip down to the paragraph with an * as a starting point if you want.
I bought the same drive - an internal, installed internally - and since I'm running Windows XP Home, I'm required to use the 'free included Acronis' software. Only, I have to dl'd it, it's a crippled version and won't install on another computer unless the same brand of drive is already there - it was a Seagate - so I had to jump through hoops to get it installed. Apparently, Advanced Format drives are something MS decided we didn't need, so the sw installs a 'bridge' of some kind that allows XP to handle such a large drive (as much blame as I may throw around, I have to take responsibility for not knowing some things such as this - else I wouldn't have bought it.)
For a while, I think my drive was much like the first image, although, my first partition might have been a little bigger. I was just going to use this an 'extra space' drive to allow me to consolidate my other drives. Then a drive died and I started using it. I put most stuff on the first partition, but some on the 2nd. One morning, the first partition was gone. Testdisk and Recover? could retrieve the data so I got most of what was on the 1st onto the second and foolishly? left things the way they were until I could buy another drive to put the 2nd partitions stuff on it and let Testdisk do it's thing. Well, another WD drive I bought as a boot died ~ 4 months after installing it - bad sectors - and now the 2nd partition has vanished. Now, onto the problems:
*For over a week I have been stumbling through this trying to fix it, no doubt making things worse as I have tried so many things I've read here before signing up. My partitions have switched positions from the first picture. As of this moment, I can't access any of the data on the partition, but am doing a deeper search. In the past 48 hours, this has worked, I've monkeyed around with things, it has not, I've triedother things, it has, etc. I don't know what will eventually result. It lacks the professionalism of the pictures above, but this is currently what my Testdisk-7.0-WIP looks like:
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, June 2014
Christophe GRENIER <
grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sde - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Analyse cylinder 216737/364800: 59%6
HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 97451 213 26 1565563697
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT16 <32M 297154 143 25 387107 4 27 14450861
FAT16 <32M 297154 143 25 387107 4 27 1445086191
At best, I think I will get access to the ~740 Gigs of data on the same size partition - which I have as much as I can currently find space for - but it will probably still be in the first position. Computer Management currently shows the 2nd partition as being 1301 GB which still will leave me missing ~ 1 GB.
At one point, I got the option to restore a partition it found - my brain siezes doing math so who knows if it even came close to being the same partition. It didn't work though, so maybe it wasn't. At another point, I got the chance to restore or write? a partition from a choice of 3 and this is bizarre as I have gotten the same three choices for other drives over the years (below is the best I can make from my chicken scratchings yesterday:
Disk /dev/sde - 400 GB / 3723 GiB - CHS 48641 255 63 Sat Aug?
14:42:12 2009
16:01:16 2009
17:03:14 2009
Man, if it had only been the right size...
Okay, two eps of Law and Order have gone, so I'll post this now. I'll try to add a capture when it's done.
@Krypt - thanks for posting the log info and images. I had no idea how much was stored in the log.