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HI,

First thank you for providing us with a powerful tool.

Here is my PC: Asus P5K (latest BIOS), Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1Tb for my data (without my OS), XP 32bit SP3 on another drive.

My Problem: The Spinpoint Drive went to "RAW" mode under windows when I noticed there was a problem. Then under the windows disk management I only see a 8Gb partition instead of 4 partitions for a total of 1Tb.
Under the BIOS, the Samsung drive is detected but the size displayed is "0Mb". Under PTEDIT32, the drive is detected as 8Gb FAT16 partition and the table seems wrong. Finally, only the cache (32Mb) is detected with the ESTOOL given by Samsung for their hard disk drives.

How could I correct this ?

Thanks !

Hi,

it is hard to say what is happen.
It seems like corrupted or bug of firmware.
When yes and you need the data you should give this hard disk to any profi
or make a claim to new one.

Could you make a DEBUG BIX file with HDAT2 and send it to my e-mail?
(Dump/Save to file menu + Save DEBUG data)

Send me the contents of LBA 0 with PTEDIT32 (MBR table).
Maybe it is bad partition tables (rewritten) only.

Hi,

Thks for the answer and thanks for HDAT2 because I solved the main problem:

Only the cache was seen in the BIOS, hence the 32Mb FAT16 partition. AS LBA was not activated, TestDisk could only see 8Gb.
I launched HDAT2, then with "set MAX address" I put the limit 900Gb further to discover the remaining of the drive.

The BIOS then detected the whole drive, same for windows. The drive is still in RAW mode and has lost the partitions, but TestDisk is seeing all my data and partitions and I'm saving all the data now.

I'll try to save the drive and see if it's still correctly working after my saving is done.

Great Job with your soft, I could not find any other doing the job thanks again !