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Post a screen every time, whenever the Seagate lets Testdisk access it
Harddisk appears as local disk
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New #152
Hopefully the next screen is where you tell Tesdisk it is a Intel/PC partition. I'm linking jumanji's tutorial images
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New #153
Wait-a-minit I missed a crucial piece of information. What is connected to the machine?
WD or Seagate or both?
Perhaps you disconnected the WD before you started Testdisk. You told me everything was done in 126 except the SD card.
If the WD is not connected that's good.
If the WD is connected, please safely eject before continuing in Testdisk. I don't think you have to start over, just wait for the next pause, you've selected dev/sdb and the size was correct 3000 GB = 3TB
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New #154
We haven't entered into the write phase so no harm. I should have looked at the Disk Management closer and I would have seen the size.
dev/sda is your C:\drive 500GB, right?
dev/sdb is your Seagate external, 3TB - right? Also Disk 2 in the Disk Management with no media.
and the other two are unknown at this point - the network share and F:\ don't really exist
I know F:\ was the Seagate at one point
was there ever a network share for the Seagate?
We're good, I just need to be more careful reading.
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New #155
The delay must be due to the Seagate being unresponsive. I don't think we're going to get very far this way.
Testdisk did provide new information though.
Just quit all the way out of Testdisk and we'll see if you can't disconnect that network drive ghost
and get rid of that F:\ ghost too
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New #156
Windows does appear as though it may be interfering, and that's something that needs addressing. I wonder if that's really your problem.
To avoid interference from Windows and to provide another perspective of the drive I'd run Testdisk off of a boot disk. Just to see if maybe your data is actually readily available. If so, that may mean there's absolutely nothing wrong with the drive itself.
Maybe there's hope for it.
Curious as to what your BIOS knows about the drive.
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New #157
Yep, Starty I did read your PM when I switched on my PC this morning an hour or so ago but then had to go away for the morning chores
. Just finished my breakfast, with my wife sitting on my neck and admonishing me staring at the screen planning my first salvo of the day.:)
Hi stole away,
1. Unplug all your external HDDs and pendrives, and empty your optical drives.
2. Run Test Disk. The only and the first disk shown will be the internal disk. And it will always be the first disk shown. Leave it alone.
3. Quit.
4. Now plug in your external drive from which you want to recover and run Test Disk.
5. The second drive shown will be the external drive. You should also be able to identify it with its capacity.
Now did you go through my thread Regain a lost drive using Test Disk - An Illustrated Guide
Please take your time. You can run testdisk any number of times to familiarise yourself as long as you do not hit a wrong write command.
Also see my post here. Western Digital drive showing up with Unallocated in disc management
As suggested by Startybart go step by step.
(just now my wife butts in and tells me that I gulped eight dosas (pancakes) as against the usual four. Even as she was serving it hot she had a queried look but I knew not why then, lost in my own thoughts.:) Again, I may have to run - drive - to the hypermarket to buy groceries and vegetables. Otherwise my maid who is as good as my wife - in throttling me - will happily let me go without lunch.)
So be patient.:)
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New #158
Dear jumanji,
Please attend to your chores. The Seagate won't even respond to step 3 Intel/PC
I saw you earlier, but didn't want to give away your hiding place.
Thanks you for stopping in then and again now. I will attend this issue as best I can, I understand the theory and only have to apply that to Testdisk.
Be safe and run - dive, what ever you have to do just so as you do get lunch
Bill
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New #159
Steve: Great idea - thanks (Run from a boot)
If I recall, this drive exhibits the same behavior when connected to a different machine - I'll have to ask or backtrack to check though.
This was a long journey, fixing other things (installing SP1 w/ associated difficulties) just to get here.
I'll try a different tact and then call it quits. The data is the issue, the drive is under warranty. I suggested to stoleaway that Seagate might be able to recover the data as part of the warranty service, there might be a nominal charge, but I would argue that their device failed on a mission critical project.
I posted a recap last week (post 114), not too much has changed due to work and other delays. I'm open to any suggestions, as is stoleaway, I'm sure.
Bill
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New #160
There is no network share for my harddisk I think. Reached step 12 of this Regain a lost drive using Test Disk - An Illustrated Guide then there's a write error in the end hmm.
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