very rare for a disk to be non-partitioned

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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jos99
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very rare for a disk to be non-partitioned

#1 Post by jos99 »

hi guys

my Zyxel 325-2 2-bay NAS (bought 2014-1) broke down
disks suddenly did not start up again, they try to, but some whirring and a big click, then starts all over again
after checking disks today (Seagate NAS HDD 3000), they were very hot (presumably trying to start for days)

installed teskdisk on Win10/i7-3700 PC, OK
result: None partition table has been detected (very rare the program says)

do I have to presume that disk (or even worse: both disks) are totally DEAD?
(i do have a back up, but 4 weeks old and some recent data not there)

how to proceed?

txs

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Re: very rare for a disk to be non-partitioned

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Please copy and paste the testdisk.log file content.

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Re: very rare for a disk to be non-partitioned

#3 Post by jos99 »

Tue Feb 23 00:38:06 2016
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 4.8, Cygwin 1007.34
Compilation date: 2015-04-18T13:01:55
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.9

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