help with TestDisk and how to proceed

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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Mike
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help with TestDisk and how to proceed

#1 Post by Mike »

Hi,

trouble with a disk and I'm not sure how to proceed. Here are screen shots of what's happening

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says don't select 'none', so I scroll up to "analyze"

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the deep search part i let run for hours and progress suggested it would be weeks more.

I'm ignorant enough of disks and structures that I would really like some guidance on how to proceed

thanks!

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Re: help with TestDisk and how to proceed

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Select the PhysicalDrive instead of the drive letter.

Mike
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Re: help with TestDisk and how to proceed

#3 Post by Mike »

can I get a hint how to do that? when I start TestDisk, I first get the follow screen and select the drive by scrolling....been looking throug the wikimanual but am not finding how to select the physical drive.

thanks

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Re: help with TestDisk and how to proceed

#4 Post by Mike »

bump....anything? apologies if i'm not asking the questions correctly, admittedly a newbie.....but I can't seem to get anywhere with this.
thanks

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