
and i ll need to arrange for hdd to store nearly 1.6tb of data

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TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>D MS Data 264192 5860532223 5860268032
D Mac HFS 73178241 1445874014 1372695774 [M-I yM-)~PB*~AM-6M-9^FM-;I ^WJAhݧ&]
D Mac HFS 115956725 179088887 63132163
D Mac HFS 118007085 181139247 63132163
D Mac HFS 165157438 179386434 14228997
D Mac HFS 167192102 181421098 14228997
D Mac HFS 172665454 179616340 6950887
D Mac HFS 173616473 178671453 5054981
D Mac HFS 174700086 181650972 6950887
D Mac HFS 177920089 182975069 5054981
D Mac HFS 178671450 183726430 5054981
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
NTFS found using backup sector!, 3000 GB / 2794 GiB
I have no idea why you'd like to enter this value?the problem was i couldn't enter the value 5860532223 for end sector. any soln for that?
Looks fine!as the screen u have included, the 1st partition i had viewed the files and they were the correct ones.