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You don`t need to change anything, Just press ENTER New screen will appear with something like: You need to Select "Analyze" then press enter Analyze current partition structure and search for lost partitions Please select the partition table type, press ENTER when done. You will see on your screen something like: Next step is to select the partition table type ( in the liness above you will see YOUR hard drives), so select the one which you have problem with, then press "ENTER") Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press ENTER): TestDisk 6.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, November 2005

Here is what you will see on your screen when running Test disk: UNzip it somewhere on your computer then find and run "testdisk_win.exe"

So, basically what we need to do to get our HDD back to life :) is to write the MBR signature (the Hex Word 0xAA55) to your drive's MBR sector.Ģ. In most cases the problem is in MBR (Master Boot Record) created in your drive's MBR sector by OS you had before upgrade or patch with service pack etc. This sounds like an issue that I had recently, I had formatted my C drive and reinstalled windows XP on in without unpluging the external hard drive.