- I then ran Testdisk and I thought the drive was there ("DISK /dev/sda") and it appeared to be readable but appeared to have the wrong size (160 GB/149 GiB). It turns out this was not the drive I was looking for 9not sure what it was as it did nto appear to coincide with anything I have plugged into my computer.
- I checked the BIOS to see if I could see the drive and I do not see it listed anywhere n the BIOS but then again I dont see the working drive (G:) either so...
- In device manager the drive is listed but the name seems generic "Seagate Backup+ Desk USB Device". I cant honestly say if it was recognized as another name previously or not. The properties in device manager say the device is working properly and on the volumes tab it gives the proper size but as mentioned before it lists the file system as RAW.
- After a bit of a break and a reboot, I went back to TestDisk and there were more drives detected including 2 entries that match the size for the H drive (Screenshot 1).
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- Tried the top drive first (DISK /dev/sdb) and the analyze command gave a partition read error. Screenshot 2
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The quick scan showed read errors and I did not let it finish.
- Then I tried the second option (Drive H:), at the partition table type, Testdisk defaulted the file type to none. I choose intel instead, heeding the bottom prompt in testdisk stating that rarely is the partition type none. Analyzing this instance of the drive also gave a partition read error (same as above).
Not really sure where to go from here. The one thing I have not tried is removing the drive from the enclosure and either putting it into another one or using an adapter to see if the interface of the enclosure is the issue.
As stated above any help would be greatly appreciated.