At this point, I'm not sure what to do. I am considering putting the drive in a linux machine and making an image to a bigger drive. I have used photorec and have recovered some files.Hard disk list
<Good drives listing removed>
Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63, sector size=512 - Seagate External Drive, S/N:J5TVK9VT
Partition table type default to Intel
Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - Seagate External Drive
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition: Read error
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
FAT32 at 0/1/1
FAT1 : 32-19105
FAT2 : 19106-38179
start_rootdir : 38180 root cluster : 2
Data : 38180-156296291
sectors : 156296322
cluster_size : 64
no_of_cluster : 2441533 (2 - 2441534)
fat_length 19074 calculated 19075
file_pread(6,16,buffer,2111(0/33/33)) ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
file_pread(6,1,buffer,2112(0/33/34)) ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
file_pread(6,16,buffer,2113(0/33/35)) ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
file_pread(6,1,buffer,2113(0/33/35)) ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
file_pread(6,2,buffer,156303360(9729/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,156303360(9729/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,156303359(9729/110/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,14,buffer,156303361(9729/110/47)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,3,buffer,156303375(9729/110/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,3,buffer,156303422(9729/111/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,8,buffer,156303438(9729/111/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,11,buffer,156303485(9729/112/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,156305407(9729/143/14)) lseek err Invalid argument
Results
interface_write()
No partition found or selected for recovery
Windows does not assign the drive a letter. If I try to do anything to it in the Computer Management, it asks me if I want to initialize the disk with an MBR or GPT. I have so far refused to do either.
Thanks,
IMarv