Seagate Expansion 2TB - cannot find partition

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faima
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Seagate Expansion 2TB - cannot find partition

#1 Post by faima »

Hi,

I have been using a Seagate Expansion 2TB external drive plugged into my ASUS RT-N56U router streaming movies to my WD TV Live. About a week ago, movie streaming stopped working. I plugged the drive into my laptop. Initially it could be seen in Device Manager and appeared as an un-initialised drive in Disk Management. I cannot access the disk in Windows. Later in Disk Management the disk was detected as a RAW partition.

First time I ran Testdisk Analyse it was creating a log with loads of read errors that made my laptop internal hard disk filling up (generated 100GB of logs at 32% Analyse complete). Therefore I had to abort it and restart again with no logs though I did capture a snippet of the logs and pasted to this post below. It should be noted Testdisk could only recognise the media as a Drive F, not a Disk and could not recognise any partitions.

Thu Jun 26 21:43:13 2014
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, June 2014
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.8, MinGW 3.11
Compilation date: Jun 21 2014 09:12:33
ext2fs lib: none, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=320072933376
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=128035676160
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive2) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive2) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive2
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=128033226752
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=320070483968
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\E:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\E:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\E:
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\F:)=2000396289024
Hard disk list
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63, sector size=512
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 128 GB / 119 GiB - CHS 15566 255 63, sector size=512
Drive C: - 128 GB / 119 GiB - CHS 15565 255 63, sector size=512
Drive D: - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63, sector size=512
Drive F: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 3907024002 1 1, sector size=512

Partition table type default to None
Drive F: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Drive F: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 3907024002 1 1
Current partition structure:

Partition: Read error

search_part()
Drive F: - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 3907024002 1 1
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,19(19/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,66(66/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,8,buffer,80(80/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,137(137/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,2050(2050/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,20(20/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,67(67/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,88(88/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,138(138/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,2051(2051/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,3(3/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,4(4/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,14,buffer,5(5/0/1)) read err: read after end of file


<truncated as the logs are too many!!!>


file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,131208(131208/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,133121(133121/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,3907024000(3907024000/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,3907024001(3907024001/0/1)) read err: read after end of file
Search for partition aborted

Results

interface_write()

No partition found or selected for recovery
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
file_win32_pread(112,1,buffer,0(0/0/1)) read err: read after end of file

Partition: Read error
Store new MBR code
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition

TestDisk exited normally.


Second time I ran Testdisk Analyse again it took more than 2 days to complete and at the end nothing/no partitions were found.

Please see the attached screen captures and log file extract.

I have lots of movies stored on the drive and would love to be able to retrieve them. Appreciate any help that can be offered.

Thanks.
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Fiona
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Re: Seagate Expansion 2TB - cannot find partition

#2 Post by Fiona »

Did you use testdisk 64bit?
In case, please use testdisk 32bit and select your physically disk not a drive.
Read errors often indicate a faulty file system or bad sectors.
If you still receive read errors, please let me know.

Fiona

faima
Posts: 2
Joined: 26 Jun 2014, 12:22

Re: Seagate Expansion 2TB - cannot find partition

#3 Post by faima »

Hi Fiona,

I have downloaded and ran the 32-bit version of testdisk and I still cannot see the physical disk, all I can see is Drive F: (see attached screenshot).

I tried unplugging and replugging the power supply which somehow triggered Windows detected the disk could be recognised and it ran some kind of check disk. During the check disk was in progress, I could see the file structure of the drive again in file manager but I didn't navigate the file structure or try to open any files as I didn't want to interrupt the check disk process. However after the process was completed Windows was showing the disk as RAW again and I could no longer access the drive see the file structure any more (see attached screenshot).

Your thoughts?

Thanks,
Faima
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