2TB western digital drive turned RAW

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2TB western digital drive turned RAW

#1 Post by Deleted User 4095 »

Hi,

I have a 2tb drive that was working fine and the next time I booted my pc was not accessible. Disk management now says the drive is not initialized.

Can anybody help me get the data back?

My log file is below
thanks
Ben



Wed Oct 16 14:46:46 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-07-30T14:08:52
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=1000097185792
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=7716864
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - SAMSUNG HD103UJ, S/N:31535033394a5130344337373430202020202020, FW:1AA01113
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD20EADS-11R6B1, S/N:2020202057202d44435756413159373130393731, FW:01.00A01
Drive D: - 7716 KB / 7536 KiB - CHS 1 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L, FW:1.03

Partition table type default to Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - WDC WD20EADS-11R6B1
Partition table type: Intel

Interface Advanced

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Current partition structure:

Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
file_pread(5,2,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031039(243201/110/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,14,buffer,3907031041(243201/110/47)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031055(243201/110/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031102(243201/111/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,8,buffer,3907031118(243201/111/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
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Re: 2TB western digital drive turned RAW

#2 Post by Fiona »

Before you can diagnose any boot sector, you must have a partition in your partition table.
TestDisk for windows obtains info from windows.
Since w2k, a disk must be initialized so that windows can handle it.
Windows only writes 4 Bytes to your partition table.
It was often helpful to initialize a disk first, before you make a diagnose using testdisk.
Then you can run TestDisk and Quick and if no partition is found Deeper Search also.
If your partition is found, you can register your partition into your partition table and if necessary repair your boot sector or rebuild it.
Please repeat your diagnose and copy and paste the content of your testdisk.log into your next post!

Fiona
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Deleted User 4095

Re: 2TB western digital drive turned RAW

#3 Post by Deleted User 4095 »

Fiona,

Thanks, have done what you said. Below are the results.



Fri Oct 18 09:23:53 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date: 2013-07-30T14:08:52
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=1000097185792
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=7716864
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - SAMSUNG HD103UJ, S/N:31535033394a5130344337373430202020202020, FW:1AA01113
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - WDC WD20EADS-11R6B1, S/N:2020202057202d44435756413159373130393731, FW:01.00A01
Drive D: - 7716 KB / 7536 KiB - CHS 1 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L, FW:1.03

Partition table type default to Intel
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - WDC WD20EADS-11R6B1
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Current partition structure:
No partition is bootable

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
file_pread(5,2,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031040(243201/110/46)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3907031039(243201/110/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,14,buffer,3907031041(243201/110/47)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031055(243201/110/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,3,buffer,3907031102(243201/111/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,8,buffer,3907031118(243201/111/61)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,11,buffer,3907031165(243201/112/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,2,buffer,3907033087(243201/143/14)) lseek err Invalid argument
interface_write()

No partition found or selected for recovery

What would you suggest

Ben
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