Hello everyone. I'm pretty sure I sent an answer this morning, but I saw a message saying that a mod should verify my post,
First of all, THANK YOU ALL. Really, I appreciate it very much. Thank you.
Second, my apologies to the mod if my last message is pending to approval. I am saying again things that I repeated in the "past", but I wanted to respond and it has been a long time.
As I said in the other message, this morning I saw fzabkar answer, and I tried it with DMDE. And ... really, thanks. It is the first software that has recognized the hard drive.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the hard drive is dying (honestly, I do not care if I can back up at least some vital files), but I think that's weird; the hard drive was "new" (less than 10 months). The hard drive is from a laptop, but I never took it anywhere, it's always on my desk, so it's never been hit or something.
So I think (or I want to believe) that the files should be fine. I hope. Since I was able to copy a file using ntfs4dos. But I know there could be more mistakes and wrong sectors.
The only thing that scares me is that I was working on the game when the error occurred. Therefore, I do not know if it is more likely that there are more errors in the sectors where the files were opened at that time.
I'm not sure (I'm not an HDD expert like you), but I have the impression that the error possibly occurred as in the "beginning", some kind of table or database where the partition was defined, since not even chkdsk or linuxmint recognized it, but I was able to browse by launching folders with nfts4dos.
I'm sorry, I'm writing too much.
The fact is that MDME recognizes it, I can see the folders and subdirectories.
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/TONi1HL.jpg)
This morning I started a Deep scan using MDME. It reached 58% relatively fast (about 2~3 hours). But after that, it started to run very slow. And after reading your new comments, I stopped it.
I noticed this:
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/IrU74jB.jpg)
"Invalid partition table. Error loading operating system. Missing operating system."
On the deep scan, there 2 bars (one for the partition with 100mb, and another with all my data). The one with my data was fully green (fully till ~58%, it was not filled). The 100mb partition, was half red. I don't know, but I guess that the red zones indicates errors.
I didn't executed HDDSuperTool.
I'm planing my next step...
I have focused on "high priority files" that I need to recover.
Most of the game code is on the same directory, and there should not be very big..
Most assets are on a separate folder. This one is bigger sized.. Maybe 1~3gb.
About the music... This folder is huge, but I have a backup from.. 8 months ago I think. So if I recover a few new songs I am more than happy. But there are lots of wav files, so I not sure if it could be possible.
What you guys would do?
Again, thanks a lot for the help.