A couple days ago my both my desktop and laptop stopped reading my WD passport (the drive is clearly listed under "My Computer," but when I click on it, the computer asks whether I want to format it). I tried putting it into a Rocketfish enclosure in case that was the problem. I have done this before with other hardware and it has always worked. This time it did not. The laptop that I am currently running testdisk on runs on XP with Windows 2007. After several hours of reading many sites on the web and running testdisk over and over, I have gotten fairly far into the process, but am stumped as to what is the right thing to do next. With a quick search on testdisk, none of my files are picked up. With a deep search, I can see everything. The hard drive only has one partition, unlike all of the tutorials on the web for testdisk, but I think this is normal because some sites say that passports only have one partition. I left this partition as "*" instead of changing it to "P" or "L" (it would not allow me to change it to L regardless). I got the step where one pushes "write" which I did with some worry that might cause me to lose all of my data - and there is some important data on there that is not backed up (although much of it is backed up). Then the screen says "Boot sector Bad" and below it "Backup Boot sector OK." And below that: "First sectors, Boot code and partition information, are not identical" and below that "A valid Fat boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable." And lastly below that it gives me several options: "Quit; List; Backup BS; Rebuild BS; Dump." Here is where I am stumped. What is the right choice if I want to recover my data? I am nervous that I will delete everything.
Thank you to anyone out there who can provide good advice on this!
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