Need help restoring partition on external HDD

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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david211
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Joined: 20 Mar 2021, 15:30

Need help restoring partition on external HDD

#1 Post by david211 »

Hi guys,

Hope someone will help recovering my data or partition on my external HDD, I read and searched the forum and here are some results
of my attempts:

Can't open in windows
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Running the testDisk util it didn't found partitions (quick and deep search)
It also says: Write error: Can't write new MBR code.

I also have some info from the CrystalDiskInfo:
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Any solution with this issue?

Thank you in advance : )
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recuperation
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Joined: 04 Jan 2019, 09:48
Location: Hannover, Deutschland (Germany, Allemagne)

Re: Need help restoring partition on external HDD

#2 Post by recuperation »

Duplicate your drive as described in the manual and retry.
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