Two identical hard drives went RAW
Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 21:10
I've tried doing what the TD manual says and various things I've read here… maybe I'm missing a crucial step. I have 15 years of special project work on this HD so I really need to recover it
I have two identical HDs in one computer. One is a "live" HD and the other is a backup. Every night the contents of A are copied to B. In Windows 7, using Disk Manager, I unassigned hard drive letters then I rewired the SATA cables and what HD they are matched with, in preparation for adding another bigger HD. Problem is that now I can't mount EITHER disk! I've tried using TestDisk to the best of my knowledge without success. What could I be doing wrong? Please see below.
1. Opened TestDisk
2. Started Logging
3. Selected my HD (/dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931GiB - WDC WD10 01FALS-00J7B)
4. Partition Type: selected Intel (this was the detected type)
5. Went to Advanced - Filesystem utilities. Shows "> 1 P HPFS - NTFS …."
6. Selected List at the bottom… says "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
7. Tried Rebuild FS.. it processes for about 12 hrs then comes back and says "Boot sector Status: Bad Backup boot sector status: Bad Sectors are not identical. A valid NTFS boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable."
8. Did "Q"uit then tried "List" --- got "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
9. When I try doing Analyse, I see:
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid NTFS or exFAT boot
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
No partition is bootable
10. Quick search and Deep Search yield nothing
I can't see the file system on either disk, both of which are now in different computers.
What am I doing wrong?
I have two identical HDs in one computer. One is a "live" HD and the other is a backup. Every night the contents of A are copied to B. In Windows 7, using Disk Manager, I unassigned hard drive letters then I rewired the SATA cables and what HD they are matched with, in preparation for adding another bigger HD. Problem is that now I can't mount EITHER disk! I've tried using TestDisk to the best of my knowledge without success. What could I be doing wrong? Please see below.
1. Opened TestDisk
2. Started Logging
3. Selected my HD (/dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931GiB - WDC WD10 01FALS-00J7B)
4. Partition Type: selected Intel (this was the detected type)
5. Went to Advanced - Filesystem utilities. Shows "> 1 P HPFS - NTFS …."
6. Selected List at the bottom… says "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
7. Tried Rebuild FS.. it processes for about 12 hrs then comes back and says "Boot sector Status: Bad Backup boot sector status: Bad Sectors are not identical. A valid NTFS boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable."
8. Did "Q"uit then tried "List" --- got "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
9. When I try doing Analyse, I see:
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid NTFS or exFAT boot
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
No partition is bootable
10. Quick search and Deep Search yield nothing
I can't see the file system on either disk, both of which are now in different computers.
What am I doing wrong?