![]() ![]() In terms of software, TestDisk may be able to recover the data from the drive. If you can make a clone, recover the data from the clone with software. If you can't make a clone, the drive has damage that is beyond what can be realistically recovered with a DIY attempt. If it's taking a long time, then the drive has issues and I'd recommend aborting. It's also not a process that should take days. You'll want to monitor this process closely, and abort at signs of trouble (clicking, drive hangs, etc.). Since it appears like you may have a drive that is reading slow or that may have unreadable sectors causing it to hang, the best available DIY option for cloning is going to be ddrescue, as it's free and handles bad sectors fairly well. If you want to try DIY recovery, then the first thing you should do is clone the drive. It's tough to say sight unseen.īut to answer your questions, nothing about what you posted regarding TestDisk seems abnormal.Īt this point, here's the obligatory "If the data is important, consider contacting a professional recovery company". It also could be just a logical corruption issue. The problem could be one or more degraded or failed heads, damaged sectors, or service area corruption. It's quite possible the drive is failing, given the prior slow load times and the fact that it's showing up in Windows Explorer (after the TestDisk repair) but becomes inaccessible after a few minutes. I'm taking a stab in the dark, but maybe windows is loading up completely before the external hard drive is detected at all? And it isn't "re-writing the partition table" because it isn't detected before windows loads. (I have Windows on an SSD and it boots up very quickly. I feel like I'm missing something simple, but have followed the tutorials pretty much point for point. The drive shows up in windows explorer, and after about 2 minutes tells me i need to format it to use it (same as before). Then I'm prompted to restart.Īfter restarting, it appears that nothing happens. I choose "intel" as it said it has detected it.ġ Found partition comes up and I choose "quick search" (hitting "p" to list files shows a selection of most of the folders and files i have on the drive)Ĭhoose "write", "Y" to confirm. So, after selecting the highlighted "version" of my drive, (I did not feel comfortable messing around with this "version" of my detected drive, as it seemed to be the "incorrect" one. However, the one time I selected "drive G:" to see if I'd have better luck with that, it returned "none" detected partition types, and when I selected "intel" a lot of different errors were returned. Not sure if that matters? Also, there are 2 different "versions" of my drives. I notice the syntax for the drive names is different than what I've seen in tutorials. My first question is in the detected drives it finds: I'm using Win 7 64-bit, and downloaded the "windows 64 bit" version of testdisk. After a start up, the drive will show up, and after about 2 minutes windows will tell me I need to format it (I have hit cancel every time!) to use it (if explorer doesn't just crash, which happens sometimes). The drive then became inaccessible to windows explorer. I ran error checking in windows and after it ran, it said it fixed some things and put recovered files in a folder called "found" on the drive. Recently my 2TB WD external hard drive was having very long load times for games and media files. I know these softwares' (DiskPatch and TestDisk) failing is down to disk being encrypted.Hi all. but the software could not determine my cluster size and hence failed to recover the BS. I also tried to recover the boot sector using DIY's DiskPatch tool. However Testdisk is unable to rebuild the bad BS. I tried Testdisk software from and it shows 2 errors.ġ) Space conflict between the two partitions - overlapping sectors?Ģ) Bad NTFS bootsector for the missing partition. GetDataBack for NTFS shows the drive as having the same start and end values: So, it is currently a RAW, Primary partition. It was initially detected as an Active primary but I used diskpart tool in windows to unmark the active attribute. No file recovery software can read the files on the partition as they are encrypted. I cannot check drive properties in Disk Management or assign it a drive letter to it. No drive letter assigned as well (So I cannot run BitLocker Repair Tool). I could still see it in Disk Management but the drive had no volume assigned to it and therefore had Recently the drive just disappeared from My Computer. Just fine but the second one (50GB) I used to backup personal files and photos and hence it was BitLocker encrypted in Windows 7 has developed problems out of the blue. One is used for backing up frequently used software and music and is NOT encrypted and it is working My external Seagate Freeagent 250GB HDD is partitioned in 2 Primary partitions. ![]()
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