Drive unreadable please help a novice
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:02
Hi I know that similar problems have been posted numerous times but hope someone will help me.
I have 2 near identical Seagate 3tb drives as storage.
I unexpectedly lost power now I cant access one of my drives, the one containing all my family photos vids .
I have tried to use testdisk myself but I'm going round in circles as I'm not really sure what I should be doing.
symptoms.
in computer management the drive now shows up as raw.
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I have run chkdsk this is what I got:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /f e:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Tools Programs+MyDocuments.
Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover
master file table from disk.
Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
When I open testdisk this is the first window
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 250 GB / 232 GiB
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Drive C: - 249 GB / 232 GiB
Drive D: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Drive E: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
>[Proceed ] [ Quit ]
As I said the problem disk is drive E which is physical drive 1, this is my first problem I'm not sure if I should select physical drive 1, or drive E to proceed. or what I should be doing next? My gandaughters photos are very precious to me so any help would be most appreciated.
I have 2 near identical Seagate 3tb drives as storage.
I unexpectedly lost power now I cant access one of my drives, the one containing all my family photos vids .
I have tried to use testdisk myself but I'm going round in circles as I'm not really sure what I should be doing.
symptoms.
in computer management the drive now shows up as raw.
[img]
I have run chkdsk this is what I got:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /f e:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Tools Programs+MyDocuments.
Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover
master file table from disk.
Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
When I open testdisk this is the first window
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 250 GB / 232 GiB
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Drive C: - 249 GB / 232 GiB
Drive D: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
Drive E: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
>[Proceed ] [ Quit ]
As I said the problem disk is drive E which is physical drive 1, this is my first problem I'm not sure if I should select physical drive 1, or drive E to proceed. or what I should be doing next? My gandaughters photos are very precious to me so any help would be most appreciated.