Invalid FAT Boot Sector

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serbenzi
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Invalid FAT Boot Sector

#1 Post by serbenzi »

Hi,
I have a inaccessible external WD MY Passport 1TB drive.
I tried running TestDrive Analyse ==> Quick Search but I have been unable to complete a full run.
I receive a message of 2 invalid boot sectors FAT12 and FAT16 See attached file.
The Analyse job is not performing. It has reached 72% in 24 hours.

Can you please advise how to proceed.

Thanks for your kind support.
Benzi

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Re: Invalid FAT Boot Sector

#2 Post by cgrenier »

More information will help. Please post the testdisk.log file content.

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Re: Invalid FAT Boot Sector

#3 Post by serbenzi »

Please find here attached additonal information.
Attached files include - Log and screen-shots of Tesdisk Analyse
Attached files include - Log and screen-shots of Tesdisk Analyse
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Sat Sep 5 21:28:59 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.9, Cygwin 2002.0
Compilation date: 2015-08-30T19:28:09
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.9
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=1000169537536
Hard disk list
Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63, sector size=512 - WD My Passport 0748, S/N:WXP1C5215823, FW:1010

Partition table type (auto): None
Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WD My Passport 0748
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=116 sector=52
BAD_RS LBA=218129509 5918957
check_part_i386 1 type 72: no test
BAD_RS LBA=729050177 1083631
check_part_i386 2 type 74: no test
BAD_RS LBA=168653938 1838434
Current partition structure:
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410

Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

Bad relative sector.
3 * NetWare 3.11+ 10498 56 41 10498 56 40 0

Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

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Sat Sep 5 21:28:59 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.9, Cygwin 2002.0
Compilation date: 2015-08-30T19:28:09
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.9
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=1000169537536
Hard disk list
Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63, sector size=512 - WD My Passport 0748, S/N:WXP1C5215823, FW:1010

Partition table type (auto): None
Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WD My Passport 0748
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Drive H: - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=116 sector=52
BAD_RS LBA=218129509 5918957
check_part_i386 1 type 72: no test
BAD_RS LBA=729050177 1083631
check_part_i386 2 type 74: no test
BAD_RS LBA=168653938 1838434
Current partition structure:
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410

Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

Bad relative sector.
3 * NetWare 3.11+ 10498 56 41 10498 56 40 0

Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * Sys=72 13577 238 11 119521 238 60 1701990410
2 * Sys=74 45381 70 3 79242 34 29 543974724

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