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I have a 1TB external drive that suddenly stopped showing up in My Computer yesterday. I can see it in device manager and disk management. I kept getting a pop up telling me I had to format it before it could be used but I don't want to do that, there are 10 years of family pictures plus other items that I want/need. Luckily I came upon the video on YouTube for TestDisk and I have it running now. It's been running for 11 hours and says it has 35 hours to go. I didn't see the steps that said to analyze or choose Intel etc... I'm attaching some screenshots with the hopes that you'll tell me it is working.

If PhotoRec is still in pass 0 after one hour, the disk is probably encrypted or there is an hardware problem.
Looks like you will have to contact a data recovery company...

Ugh not what I wanted to hear... I'm assuming that's going to cost a lot of $$$