Hard Drive info
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[Model #- WDC WD5000AKS
Firmware # - 12.01C01
CHS- 969021 16 63
Info above from wd diagnostics tool
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LBA- 976773168 printed on hard drive label
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TestDisk shows the drive as >Disk /dev/sdd - 500 GB / 465 GiB - WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0
i selected intel> analyse>yes to vista question>quick scan for the overnight scanned that pulled up nothing
Test Disk Showed Geometry as CHS 60801 255 63
*test disk did give a read error every sector that was scanned
changed geometry head count to 16 and the cylinders updated to 96021 tried quick scan analyze for a few mins
still couldnt find partition
so i decided to try photorec but when i direct it to problem hard drive its not showing the correct directory
*[b]From Photorec[/b]*
[code]Disk /dev/sdd - 500 GB / 465 GiB (RO) - WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> P Unknown 0 0 1 60801 80 63 976773168
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PhotoRec 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Please select a destination to save the recovered files.
Do not choose to write the files to the same partition they were stored on.
Keys: Arrow keys to select another directory
C when the destination is correct
Q to quit
Directory /root
>drwxr-x--- 0 0 460 24-Jul-2012 18:04 .
drwxrwxrwt 0 0 240 24-Jul-2012 17:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 3 7-Oct-2011 00:45 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Music
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:53 Network_Settings
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Public
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 40 24-Jul-2012 17:43 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 99 21-Mar-2011 02:37 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 3 23-May-2012 19:55 pyNeighborhood
lrwxrwxrwx 0 0 6 6-Aug-2011 01:26 Media
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 40960 24-Jul-2012 17:59 photorec.ses
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 804 23-Jan-2011 14:10 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 1144583 24-Jul-2012 18:50 testdisk.log
plz help what do i do next