Please correct the title of your posting. I don't know what "n o" stands for!
kat111 wrote: 11 Jul 2022, 14:11
hi.. I am autistic and it's really upsetting for me I'm worried about this a lot, I have a USB enclosure called "Mercury Elite Pro" with a "Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS 16TB (ST16000NE000)" in it, it is still listed In Windows 10 LTSC 1809 (I don't like all the spyware in normal windows, I was trying to find a solution but even that has no way to stop windows services and defender always contacting microsoft and akamai IPs so I gave up, but that's not relevant to this just wanted to explain the weird OS version)
But it is listed without a bar showing how full it is [ ] or the whatever GB/TB out of whatever that is usually there, and when you try to open it in windows explorer it says it is corrupted. I checked Windows disk manager and it shows the disk still, but as RAW
I removed it from the enclosure entirely and linked it up to the computer like a normal hard disk or SSD with the SATA and L-connector power plug,
The enclosure may contain electronics that change the sector size. Please retry Testdisk with your disk being operated in the external USB enclosure.
If that does not change anything when looking into the directory of the partition duplicate your drive using ddrescue as described in the manual and try chkdsk on the duplicate.
This hint is just a guess of mine hoping that chkdsk might correct something.
Otherwise try Photorec, loosing metadata information though, or try any other recovery software.
This makes me very worried I am maybe going up the wrong tree, "mac hfs", I searched online and apparently that is really a mac thing? But it should definitely be a GPT NTFS windows partition like the first screen showed in TestDisk with the green horizontal bar
You can ignore the weird names. What matters is if you can see content inside of those proposals using the p-key ("list files").
Your partition is a NTFS partition. GPT is the type of the partition table. The NTFS partition may be organized under a GPT or a MBR partition table scheme.
kat111 wrote: 11 Jul 2022, 14:14
(p.s. both are brand new and only recently started using - I just read the instructions but it won't let me attach pictures as new user)
There may be a size restriction but no new user restriction. Pictures of Terminal screens fit well into the PNG image format. That may result in smaller size than the jpg format which is good for real pictures taken with a camera.