A testdisk newbie question about writing Volume Information block...

glmason · 07-18-2009, 11:36 AM

I had a Windows XP Desktop Computer, with a Seagate 500 G SATA drive, the mother board got fried and trying to replace the Mother board was to expensive. I wanted the get the data off and still use the SATA drive... so I bought a HD portable enclosure to use with my Vista driven laptop. I was able to successfully get all of the data I needed off the PATA (ATA) drives... then I tried to read the SATA drive... nothing, but I could see the drive in the device manager... so I download the trial version of Seagate Disk Support, and could see my whole (nearly whole) partition and dir structure. But being cheap I did not want to pay the 129.00 to recover a few files. I found TestDisk-6.11.3 great product... I managed to save the few file that where irreplaceable... now being greedy I'm wondering if I can get my disk back... 500 Gig is 500 Gigs after all - worth about 60.00.

In the testdisk 6.11.3 software there is an option to write (re-write?) the MBR ?... or is there some way I can re-write the "volume information" so that my Vista OS on my laptop will see the disk as a USB Mass Storage Device?

Thanks for you patience and THANK YOU for a great product.

Larry

07-18-2009, 11:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
glmason Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista SP1	A testdisk newbie question about writing Volume Information block... I had a Windows XP Desktop Computer, with a Seagate 500 G SATA drive, the mother board got fried and trying to replace the Mother board was to expensive. I wanted the get the data off and still use the SATA drive... so I bought a HD portable enclosure to use with my Vista driven laptop. I was able to successfully get all of the data I needed off the PATA (ATA) drives... then I tried to read the SATA drive... nothing, but I could see the drive in the device manager... so I download the trial version of Seagate Disk Support, and could see my whole (nearly whole) partition and dir structure. But being cheap I did not want to pay the 129.00 to recover a few files. I found TestDisk-6.11.3 great product... I managed to save the few file that where irreplaceable... now being greedy I'm wondering if I can get my disk back... 500 Gig is 500 Gigs after all - worth about 60.00. In the testdisk 6.11.3 software there is an option to write (re-write?) the MBR ?... or is there some way I can re-write the "volume information" so that my Vista OS on my laptop will see the disk as a USB Mass Storage Device? Thanks for you patience and THANK YOU for a great product. Larry