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Info about the HD:
Western digital 512gb Hard Disk.
I used this hdd on a dell laptop. I had Os on the Drive "C" and Important files on Drive "D"
Partition size was approx 250 gb each.
Sytem Reserve ususaly take some space i dont remeber

Current sitiation:
Due to laptop damage I decided to use it as Mass storage drive.
It was working fine for several weeks and it started giving issue last week. When I Plug in the HD the system will detect both drive or partition wont show up. I need to safely remove connection and reconnect cable to see the drive and partition. (I should have transfered data by this alert, but I failed to do that.)

Yesterday when i plugged it nothing showed up even after second connect. Tried several time but the same. Windows asked me to create partition.
I decide to format and recover the drive so i created new single partition to check any hardware issue. the drive formatted well and I am able to see the drive.

Recovery:
I am new to testdisk.
Something I did (lol)and somehow managed to recover important files from primary (0) which is Os Drive
but not able to find data on Primary(2) which is 2nd Drive (D).
while recovering the hdd just had a single partiotion(500gb).

So I decided to format the drive again with 2 partitions. still i am not able to recover files from partition 2.


More info about the HDD and structure:

Adapter Type: USB
SN: 116AC2101219
Model: MassStorageDevice
Partition Table Style: RAW
MBR Signature: 870BC559
Attribute: Online

Cylinders: 60801
Heads: 255
Sectors per track: 63
Capacity: 465.8GB
Total Bytes: 500107860992
Total Sectors: 976773166
Sector Size: 512
Additional Sectors: 5101
Physical Sector Size: 512
File System: NTFS
Volume Label:

Capacity: 199.9GB
Total Bytes: 214662946304
Used Space: 157.9GB
Free Space: 42.0GB
Cluster Size: 4096
Total Clusters: 52407945
Used Clusters: 41392188
Free Clusters: 11015757
Total Sectors: 419263567
Sector Size: 512
Starting Sector: 104448

Volume ID: 107E-0541-7E05-2158
NTFS Version: 3.1
$MFT Cluster: 786432 (Cylinder:398 Head:32 Sector:19)
$MFTMirr Cluster: 2 (Cylinder:6 Head:128 Sector:11)
File Record Size: 1024
Index Record Size: 4096
Volume GUID: 2CE34D0A-0115-4EA7-9F35-E66107EEBE5E

File System: NTFS
Volume Label:

Capacity: 530.0MB
Total Bytes: 555745280
Used Space: 443.8MB
Free Space: 86.2MB
Cluster Size: 4096
Total Clusters: 135679
Used Clusters: 113609
Free Clusters: 22070
Total Sectors: 1085440
Sector Size: 512
Starting Sector: 419368960

Volume ID: 605E-9D57-5E9D-26B6
NTFS Version: 3.1
$MFT Cluster: 45226 (Cylinder:26127 Head:8 Sector:10)
$MFTMirr Cluster: 2 (Cylinder:26104 Head:130 Sector:27)
File Record Size: 1024
Index Record Size: 4096
Volume GUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

File System: NTFS
Volume Label:

Capacity: 265.3GB
Total Bytes: 284833087488
Used Space: 232.9GB
Free Space: 32.3GB
Cluster Size: 4096
Total Clusters: 69539327
Used Clusters: 61064372
Free Clusters: 8474955
Total Sectors: 556314624
Sector Size: 512
Starting Sector: 420456448

Volume ID: 345A-8BEF-5A8B-ABE4
NTFS Version: 3.1
$MFT Cluster: 786432 (Cylinder:26563 Head:211 Sector:17)
$MFTMirr Cluster: 2 (Cylinder:26172 Head:52 Sector:9)
File Record Size: 1024
Index Record Size: 4096
Volume GUID: B93AF85A-56C6-47E9-8ADA-5FBCB0A7D26D

Help me to restore partition table or recover files from "Drive D" Partition(2)

ewiz wrote: 24 Jan 2025, 05:54 Info about the HD:
Western digital 512gb Hard Disk.
I used this hdd on a dell laptop. I had Os on the Drive "C" and Important files on Drive "D"
Partition size was approx 250 gb each.
Sytem Reserve ususaly take some space i dont remeber

Current sitiation:
Due to laptop damage I decided to use it as Mass storage drive.
It was working fine for several weeks and it started giving issue last week. When I Plug in the HD the system will detect both drive or partition wont show up. I need to safely remove connection and reconnect cable to see the drive and partition.

Please check if your problems persist by connecting the dubious disk to a different machine using a different cable and a different power supply - or connecting the disk internally.

For a quick disk check please post your smartmontools log file:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10910

(I should have transfered data by this alert, but I failed to do that.)

Yesterday when i plugged it nothing showed up even after second connect. Tried several time but the same. Windows asked me to create partition.
I decide to format

Formating is destructive for data.

and recover the drive so i created new single partition to check any hardware issue. the drive formatted well and I am able to see the drive.

You might see the newly formated drive but no data in there.

Recovery:
I am new to testdisk.
Something I did (lol)and somehow managed to recover important files from primary (0) which is Os Drive
but not able to find data on Primary(2) which is 2nd Drive (D).
while recovering the hdd just had a single partiotion(500gb).

So I decided to format the drive again with 2 partitions. still i am not able to recover files from partition 2.

This was another destructive move.

Insteading of playing around with an unstable disk you should have duplicated the disk using ddrescue as described in the manual.
Afterwards, you could have applied all possible recovery software, including the TestDisk package, to your clone.

So I decided to format the drive again with 2 partitions. still i am not able to recover files from partition 2.

You cannot increase the number of partitions by formating.
If you manipulate the number of partitions you partitioned your disk. Each partition can be formated then.

All of your actions rather destroyed data than recovering them.

When providing documentation about the disk, post your TestDisk log file.

Here are instructions how to use TestDisk. I recommend runninng smartmontools and ddrescue first!

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

Here is the log.
Unable to upload previous log (file size too big)

I tried Diskgenie and it shows my partition as such with folders and files.I am able to dig few of my data with free version.(Very happy to see my datas are alive still). To recover entire data the charges are expensive for me at the moment.I just started new venture and yet to generate a penny. My datas are important to continue.
So please help me to recover.
Thank you