nortonis

I don't have a linux based PC. I know some of the linux stuff from school, but it has been forever since I have used it. Would be a big learning curve again. An update, I can get Testdisk to find the drive now. It only shows 104MB and not the 128GB storage capacity. There is a note that it should match in Testdisk and to make sure that you made have the latest drivers as they should match. I'm pretty sure I do, but when testdisk scans the drive it can't find any partitions, even wiith the deep scan. Seems like I need to do a driver search to make it work.... Any other ideas? Seems like it is a fairly simple fix if I can get testdisk to change the drive format then let Recuva do its thing.

Hi, I have a crucial V4 (CT128V4SSD2) that recently went bad on me. Windows detected a problem with the hard drive and it failed to boot shortly afterwards. I tried the power cycling which didn't work. I found out about this software and was trying it out. I scanned the boot partition of the drive (from what I can tell) and maybe 1/3 of the files are recoverable. The other partition it it can't read and gives me the infamous "unable to determine file type" and lets me proceed no more. From what I can tell, from searching other topics, this means the partition is considered RAW data and Recuva won't scan it that way. When I run TestDisk or USB image to try and do their thing to get the data type correct for recuva, they just hang up and close or sit there trying to scan forever. It finds my 1TB HD on my laptop right away and scans pretty quick, the 128GB should go much faster in my mind. TestDisk and USB Image only hang up when I have the SSHD connected through the power/SATA to USB cord. When I remove it, they scan fine, which is frustrating. Nothing else has been able to read or even come close to extracting data. Could use some help please. Laptop I'm trying to Image to is an HP pavalion AMD based laptop. Windows 8.1 64bit. I've tried the capability modes and nothing changes.