The deeper analysis of TestDisk (after a long session of analyse) just came back with read errors but the drive had disappeared from Windows when I looked at it later (which explain the read errors). I wonder of the "real" backup boot sector still exists at the end of the unallocated space and if some software is able to read it. I assume the "real" backup boot sector would be at the end of the 4TB disk, but if Testdisk only sees a 465GB partition, it would not get to see the backup boot sector for the 4TB drive? "The primary boot sector is sector zero of the filesystem and the backup NTFS boot sector is located near the end of the filesystem." I guess if there is no recognisable file system TestDisk won't find the backup boot sector. My memory could be wrong, but I just didn't seem to get anywhere with TestDisk. I did try a NTFS boot sector recovery as per this page īut from what I remember, it came back with unrecognised file system. What is the status of your Boot sectors, using TestDisk? Did you try " NTFS Boot sector recovery " ? I have been scanning with Stellar Phoenix for lost volumes for the last 6 hours or so and the drive hasn't disconnected yet. PhotoRec did start to pull off some files (so the data is there - proof its not totally scrambled), but with so many multiple backup files and unique files on that drive that I stopped the process to see if there was any way to rescue the directories and file names. If I power the drive off and on again, it appears again. Also, after a while (1-8 hours), the drive is no longer visible in Windows while scanning with TestDisk. I tried using it to write MBR, but TestDisk says it can't write to the disk.Īlso, a TestDisk analyse comes up as blank, a deeper scan comes up with a load of read errors and is blank. I've tried TestDisk, but when I select the partition, it says the file system is damaged.
I removed it from the enclosure and is now sitting in a disk dock.
The drive stopped working within the enclosure. Try removing the Drive from the external enclosure first and direct connect it to a MB, and see what if the drive is read correctly. do not try any partition or force a format.
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