Deeper Search "sees" old partition name but can't restore it

[fabio]

Hi, I have a disk with a FAT and a NTFS partitions. I am trying to recover the FAT partition that was probably accidentally reformatted by a TV decoder. I tried testdisk Linux 64 bit version, downloaded from the wiki:

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Version: 7.0-WIP
Compiler: GCC 4.4
Compilation date: 2014-11-02T16:24:29

After selecting Analyze I see:

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 1 P FAT32 LBA                 0   1  1 101415 181 14 1629243329 [DISCOSMASH!]
 2 P HPFS - NTFS          101415 181 15 121601  57 56  324280320

Quick search gives:

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>D FAT32 LBA                 0   1  1 101415 254 63 1629247977 [DISCOSMASH!]
 D HPFS - NTFS          101415 181 15 121601  57 56  324280320

The labed DISCOSMASH! was probably added by default by the TV decoder when accidentally formatting the partition. Clicking P it shows just the $RECYCLE.BIN file. My partition was previously labeled Video and had many files in it. Indeed when I try a Deeper Search I can see it while searching:

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  FAT32 LBA                0   1  1 101415 181 14 1629243329 [DISCOSMASH!]
  FAT32 LBA                0   1  1 101415 181 14 1629243329 [Video]

However when the Deeper search finishes I cannot see anymore the Video partition which I want to recover, I just see this:

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>D FAT32 LBA                 0   1  1 101415 254 63 1629247977 [DISCOSMASH!]
 D HPFS - NTFS          101415 181 15 121601  57 56  324280320

So how can I recover my lost Video partition and its files?

Thanks in advance for this great tool

[fabio]

Someone has a hint on what can I do to restore the Video partition only visible while doing Deeper Search but not after it finishing? Is there a chance I can recover the partition without using photorec?

Thanks.