Hi all,
Yesterday I took my external drive to a colleague, who is on MAC. His computer wouldn't recognize my drive so we wrapped things up and I came back home. When I plugged it in the drive was now unallocated. I've tried many recovery programs but none gave a satisfactory result.
Then I found Testdisk and gave it a go this morning. It's analysis is finished and please take a look a the jpeg attached. Now, I am pretty sure this drive was in NTFS, what should be my next step?
Thanks
External drive suddenly unallocated
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External drive suddenly unallocated
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Re: External drive suddenly unallocated
That FAT32-partition starts somewhere in the middle of your disk.I am pretty sure this drive was in NTFS, what should be my next step?
At this screen, just press enter and run Deeper Search to have a try to find your NTFS-Partition.
Fiona
Re: External drive suddenly unallocated
Hi Fiona,
I ran a deeper analysis and here is the result. What do you make of it?
Thanks
--Edit--
The drive is 2TB
Seeing the results I have two questions:
-Why is there a "FAT16 <32M" and another FAT32 partition when I am suppose to only have 1 partition in NTFS?
-Do you think it is possible to reset it to NTFS and thus refresh my drive, so to speak?
I ran a deeper analysis and here is the result. What do you make of it?
Thanks
--Edit--
The drive is 2TB
Seeing the results I have two questions:
-Why is there a "FAT16 <32M" and another FAT32 partition when I am suppose to only have 1 partition in NTFS?
-Do you think it is possible to reset it to NTFS and thus refresh my drive, so to speak?
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Re: External drive suddenly unallocated
It's not a result but just a message that you can't recover this partition because it's out of the limit of your disk.
At this screen you should easily confirm with enter to bget to the results.
I have no idea why on your second screen you geometry (the values) at disk are changed?
You can compare it to your first screen.
Fiona
At this screen you should easily confirm with enter to bget to the results.
I have no idea why on your second screen you geometry (the values) at disk are changed?
You can compare it to your first screen.
Fiona