Hi
First of all, let me introduce myself as a curious amateur to data recovery. This is the first time I have had to do this, I do not work in the computer field but I have spent the past week reading on many forums, watching youtube videos and emailing support for help. I think I now know what the problem is but still need confirmation of the next steps. Help will be very much appreciated and apologies in advance if I do not add enough detail to the problem - ill try!
I have a WD Passport 500gb Hard Disk which has stopped being recognized by 'My Computer'. It is not/cannot be assigned a drive in diskmanagement and the majority of the drive is viewed as 'healthy primary partition'. I know the data is there but it is inaccessible. I have Windows 7 (64 bit) and had never had any trouble with the WD drive until I plugged it into a Macbook. I do not use Macbooks and was only intending to transfer data. However the macbook started backing up and in a panic I disconnected the hard drive. I think the hard drive is now formatted formatted for the Mac but I can't be sure as I have no idea why is won't work.
I've just testdisk to try recover the data. At first I used the 'INTEL/PC' partition analysis but nothing came of it. I next tried [EFI GPT] partition anaysis with came up with the picture below (I was surprised to see this as I read somewhere else that EFI GPT partition is for 2TB and over whereas mine is 500GB).
What are my next steps? Do I change to partition type from P Mac HFS to NTFS? Continue?
Please help! Let me know if you require any more information.
Many thanks in advance
Help needed to recover data
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Re: Help needed to recover data
On next screen, after Deeper Search, does TestDisk find your NTFS partition ?
If it works, set this partition as P(rimary) and choose Write on next screen.
If it doesn't, use PhotoRec instead. Note that you need enough space to store the recovered data.
If it works, set this partition as P(rimary) and choose Write on next screen.
If it doesn't, use PhotoRec instead. Note that you need enough space to store the recovered data.