I'm not good at technology, but I was able to "repair" my external hard drive the last few times it didn't work. This time I had to install testdisk, but I don't know how to use it. This is what appears when I use Analyse:
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Drive F: - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60800 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * Novell 120512 47 32 235785 20 46 1851859059
Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=79 82800 34 51 116349 218 61 538976288
Bad relative sector.
3 * OnTrack DM WO ??? 33550 137 11 120594 153 54 1398362912
Bad relative sector.
4 * Sys=49 86811 142 3 86812 225 45 21337
Warning: Bad starting sector (CHS and LBA don't match)
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
3 * OnTrack DM WO ??? 33550 137 11 120594 153 54 1398362912
2 * Sys=79 82800 34 51 116349 218 61 538976288
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 * Sys=79 82800 34 51 116349 218 61 538976288
4 * Sys=49 86811 142 3 86812 225 45 21337
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
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Can anyone tell what to do next? I wouldn't like to loose 10 years of photos since I don't have a buck up because the hard drive stop working while I was doing it
