Hi, Thank you for viewing my post.

I'm using a computer that has a functional c: drive with a secondary slave labeled G:. I am unsure of the exact cause for my problem (bit torrent) but what matters more is the solution.

The drive letter, G:, is visable in my computer but unlike the c: the space used and total are not displayed. When clicked upon the drive wants to be formatted when prior to this incident it was fine.

I used TestDisk from http://www.cgsecurity.org and as instructed, Run TestDisk, in advanced, select this partition, Boot, BackupBS, Quit and reboot your computer. You should have access to your data. If it doesn't work, send me the file testdisk.log (Windows may hide the file extension).

So I do and I get this from him, It's a problem of bad sectors. It's a physical problem. The disk
can't be repaired.
To recover some data, there are two possibilities:
- duplicate the HD on a new one and try to recover the filesystem
http://www.cgsecurity.org/phpwiki/index.php/DamagedHD
- try a file recovery with PhotoRec (same package than TestDisk)

Whatever you can add to clear the fog helps me. Thank you.

Hi,

cloning the disk is the first I would do, and I wouldn't let anything (OS, other programs) write garbage onto it.
then I would recover from the copy.

pepe