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Hi all

Hoping I can get some help with recovering data from my external drive. I have a Samsung S2 1tb drive which was unplugged accidentally, since then I can’t access the drive. My laptop recognises the drive (I can click to safely remove) but if I click on the drive letter I’m asked to format.

Turning to TestDisk, when I go into the program:
the disk is listed as Disk/dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - Samsung S2 Portable
Proceed > Select Intel > Analyse
1 E extended LBA 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002
No partition is bootable
5 L FAT32 LBA 0 1 2 121600 176 32 1953515056 [SAMSUNG]
Quick search
>L FAT32 LBA 0 1 2 121600 176 32 1953515056 [SAMSUNG] (all highlighted in green)
P to list files, all my files (mostly music) are there

Here’s where I’m struggling, do I need to change the partition characteristics to make it Primary or *bootable?
What do I need to do to get my laptop to access the drive again and hence the files (which are clearly still there).
Any help would be massively appreciated.

Cheers in advance

Run "cmd" (right click run as administrator) and "chkdsk /f d:" (replace d: by the correct drive letter).
Does it solve the problem ?