

Should I analyse the HDD first and then press "Advanced"?

Without pressing "Analyse" I pressed "Advanced" right away and this is what I received: If it doesn't work, please post the testdisk.log file content. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer. Is it possible that my drive is protected/locked somehow? I appreciate any help with this, this data is quite important for me and formatting the drive is not an option.Ĭgrenier wrote:As administrator, run TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. I don't like these Partition: Read Error, The harddisk seems too small and The following partition can't be recovered messages and I don't know what to do from here since I'm quite a newb with all this stuff, though I'm trying to be careful. I have read instructions and this is not how it is supposed to look like, as I know. Below is what I get after hitting "Analyse" button:Īnyway, if I proceed and press "Quick Search", scanning takes about 10 hours and finally shows me this: Same thing with some other recovery tools. Using DMDE software wasn't successful - the scanning wouldn't start at all. I haven't performed this operation yet because I'm highly afraid this might affect data integrity and hinder the recovery somehow. Windows Disk Management shows 1Tb HDD as unallocated and suggests initializing.

My laptop has 2 drives: a 120Gb SSD with Windows 7-64 on it and a 1Tb HDD with all data.
