Repairing an NTFS
Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 07:16
Hi, first post here. I am hoping that with testdisk I can finally fix my problem
I have a Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB external hard drive that I keep like basically all of my data on (the important stuff, as a backup, the unimportant not backed up but would still like to keep). And recently, the whole USB connector came out of the circuit board on the external enclosure! So, not wanting to deal with reconnecting the input to the board, I removed the external HD from its casing and connected it directly to my pc via SATA. In windows, It could not see the drive *Begin mistake*, so I loaded up computer management -> Disk management. Immediately, I was presented with this window. I selected the default MBR option. On top of that, I assigned the drive a letter. So, then I realized that I've done this before (a while back), and I've just overwritten the sectors that show what my data is! *end mistake* Now Windows wants me to format the disk.
I've scanned the hard drive with GetDataBack 4.25 several times, for hours, only to not be able to find any MFTs (and a bad sector towards the end of the disk that I was able to skip over).
So what I want to know is: Do I have a better chance with testdisk, and if so, what route should I take?
I have a Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB external hard drive that I keep like basically all of my data on (the important stuff, as a backup, the unimportant not backed up but would still like to keep). And recently, the whole USB connector came out of the circuit board on the external enclosure! So, not wanting to deal with reconnecting the input to the board, I removed the external HD from its casing and connected it directly to my pc via SATA. In windows, It could not see the drive *Begin mistake*, so I loaded up computer management -> Disk management. Immediately, I was presented with this window. I selected the default MBR option. On top of that, I assigned the drive a letter. So, then I realized that I've done this before (a while back), and I've just overwritten the sectors that show what my data is! *end mistake* Now Windows wants me to format the disk.
I've scanned the hard drive with GetDataBack 4.25 several times, for hours, only to not be able to find any MFTs (and a bad sector towards the end of the disk that I was able to skip over).
So what I want to know is: Do I have a better chance with testdisk, and if so, what route should I take?