Hello everyone. Recently I unplugged my Maxtor 500G external HD from my laptop accidentally without "safely removing." However, when I replugged the drive into the laptop, it said "Drive G:\ not formatted. Format now?" Anyway, I wasn't about to do that, since I have 250GB of stuff on it. Also, EasyRecovery isn't a great option, since I have no other drive to put the stuff onto.
I came across your site, which seems to have fixed countless HD problems :), so I read a number of threads on using testdisk to fix broken drive/partition tables.
I followed all of the steps in the stickied thread.
However, when I try to "Write," I get this screen
I'm not sure if the HD was NTFS or FAT32 at the start. I think perhaps it may be FAT32, since it doesn't recognize a valid NTFS Boot sector.
At this point, I tried "Rebuild BS" to see if that would yield any more options. But alas I arrive at this:
When I try to select Repair MFT, I get:
At this point I'm getting quite desperate, any help is appreciated!