Recovery of Lost Partition from exeternal HDD
Posted: 29 Aug 2016, 11:14
Hello,
Story: I was busy sending a game to my 500GB external HDD when I accidentally (out from the USB port) unplugged it from my laptop thinking that process had been completed. I didn't realize the problem immediately, and only found out when I reconnected it to try and see if I could play the game from my other computer. When I connected the external HDD, windows explorer assigned it a letter and it was visible.
Windows Explorer see's it as: Local Disk (F:)
When I try opening the external HDD, I receive the following:
Location is not available
F:\ is not accessible.
The parameter is incorrect.
When I check the properties, I see that free space and used space is set to 0 bytes. I've been reading alot and I have diagnosed this external HDD as being RAW. Windows cannot recognize the type of data in the external HDD, so I find myself with the problem of not being able to access it. The only option provided is to format the external HDD, BUT I know better and didn't do so.
I downloaded a few programs like EaseUS Data Recovery, EASEUS Data Recovery, HDD Regenerator, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, Wise Data Recovery and this is the result: They can see the folder structure, but they cannot recover the files correctly. When I open them, they are corrupted. Others, require payment for recovery more than 2GB, but I feel like there's no need for that just yet.
So, the problem is greater than what I thought, I downloaded the latest testdisk and photorec at the time and started using it. I'm familiar with it since I've used testdisk before to recover data from my own laptops hard disk drive. When I use photrec, I can recover the data as I tested it and can see some of the pictures and so, but thing is the file structure and names are missing.
I used testdisk and when adviced on partition it said "None". So I picked that, analysed the disk and I found some partitions but when I wanted to list the files, I couldn't do so. It said something like the structure is corrupted or something. I read one of Fiona's post and it said I should check the Boot part, and it was not identical so I made it identical. And I started my deep search, but now it stuck on 81%. The deep search shows alot of different partitions like exFat, NTSF etc and they have the wrong cylinder, head, sector for each. So I don't know how to change that number for each individual partition.
Sorry, I summarized the test disk info, but please ask me if needed. I will attach the .txt from textdisk. Thank you very much for your time reading this, and I will really appreciate all the help. I have faith this is possible and I hope this post can help others in the future.
Note: I uploaded the text file on to my dropbox because I do not know how to put it here.
File: www.dropbox.com/s/e6gefhp9e07ao9b/testdisk.log?dl=0
Thank you
Story: I was busy sending a game to my 500GB external HDD when I accidentally (out from the USB port) unplugged it from my laptop thinking that process had been completed. I didn't realize the problem immediately, and only found out when I reconnected it to try and see if I could play the game from my other computer. When I connected the external HDD, windows explorer assigned it a letter and it was visible.
Windows Explorer see's it as: Local Disk (F:)
When I try opening the external HDD, I receive the following:
Location is not available
F:\ is not accessible.
The parameter is incorrect.
When I check the properties, I see that free space and used space is set to 0 bytes. I've been reading alot and I have diagnosed this external HDD as being RAW. Windows cannot recognize the type of data in the external HDD, so I find myself with the problem of not being able to access it. The only option provided is to format the external HDD, BUT I know better and didn't do so.
I downloaded a few programs like EaseUS Data Recovery, EASEUS Data Recovery, HDD Regenerator, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, Wise Data Recovery and this is the result: They can see the folder structure, but they cannot recover the files correctly. When I open them, they are corrupted. Others, require payment for recovery more than 2GB, but I feel like there's no need for that just yet.
So, the problem is greater than what I thought, I downloaded the latest testdisk and photorec at the time and started using it. I'm familiar with it since I've used testdisk before to recover data from my own laptops hard disk drive. When I use photrec, I can recover the data as I tested it and can see some of the pictures and so, but thing is the file structure and names are missing.
I used testdisk and when adviced on partition it said "None". So I picked that, analysed the disk and I found some partitions but when I wanted to list the files, I couldn't do so. It said something like the structure is corrupted or something. I read one of Fiona's post and it said I should check the Boot part, and it was not identical so I made it identical. And I started my deep search, but now it stuck on 81%. The deep search shows alot of different partitions like exFat, NTSF etc and they have the wrong cylinder, head, sector for each. So I don't know how to change that number for each individual partition.
Sorry, I summarized the test disk info, but please ask me if needed. I will attach the .txt from textdisk. Thank you very much for your time reading this, and I will really appreciate all the help. I have faith this is possible and I hope this post can help others in the future.
Note: I uploaded the text file on to my dropbox because I do not know how to put it here.
File: www.dropbox.com/s/e6gefhp9e07ao9b/testdisk.log?dl=0
Thank you