Hello there,
I am having a problem with my "converted" external hard drive. After upgrading my harddrive to solid state hard drive. I started needing the space in the computer to run the programs. Then I converted my old hard drive and made it external (with one of those small portable cases). I used that for all my documents. But recently I decided to get a dock for it. After doing so I lost one of the partitions. The hard drive had two partitions the "recovery" and the "F" (where I had everything stored). Now every time I try to open "F" it says the the drive must be formatted before use.
So now I am trying to recover it with TestDisk. Here is a snapshot of how windows sees it.
Eventhough "F" is broken, I can still access the recovery partition.
By the way, I had windows 7 installed in the hard drive. And now I have windows 10 on my computer.
Things I have tried;
I tried different usb ports of my computer.
I tried the dock connection and the hard drive enclosure.
With TestDisk, I ran the analysis. But I am running it again and this is what its showing so far.
and on the TestDrive.log this is the information displayed.
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 4.8, Cygwin 1007.34
Compilation date: 2015-04-18T13:01:55
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.9
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=750156374016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=750156374016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=119926685696
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\D:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.
filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\D:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.
Warning: can't get size for \\.\D:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\E:)=34359738368
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\F:)=715792580608
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 120 GB / 111 GiB - CHS 14593 255 63, sector size=512
Disk /dev/sdb - 750 GB / 698 GiB - CHS 91201 255 63, sector size=512
Drive C: - 119 GB / 111 GiB - CHS 14580 255 63, sector size=512
Drive E: - 34 GB / 32 GiB - CHS 4177 255 63, sector size=512
Drive F: - 715 GB / 666 GiB - CHS 87023 255 63, sector size=512
Partition table type default to None
Drive F: - 715 GB / 666 GiB
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Drive F: - 715 GB / 666 GiB - CHS 87023 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55
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I will Update when TestDrive its done.
If someone knows that this is a dead end for me trying to recover the partition please let me know. Than I will run photorec and save as much data I can. I cant describe how important this data its to me.
Any help or hints are really appreciated!
THANKS!
Any help is appreciated!!!
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