I have a WD My Passport SE 750GB hard drive. I have had it for more than 3 years. It decided to fail on me two days ago. I am by no means an expert in data recovery, I would in fact be grateful if anyone could help me identify the problem and help with solving it.
I have four partitions on the hard drive. One of the partitions (the second partition) appeared only as "Local Disk (F:)" without other information and windows will ask me to format the drive every time I plug it into my windows 7 laptop.
I ran "Analyse" on the hard drive according to the "TestDisk Step by Step" guide. All the drives were found and sure enough, the second partition was listed twice. I did a "Quick Search" and TestDisk listed all four partitions with the "D" flag.
How do I proceed from here? Can I still access my files and copy them to my computer before proceeding?
Do let me know if you need more information.
Thank you for your time
