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I think that the image is ready. What is the next step?

At this moment the process is on 10% - Current LBA Offset 210 GB.

This is exactly what I was asking for. I made one big mistake so I'm on the other extreme and ask twice and trice before click Enter. The source is WD20EARS and the destination is WD20EARX.

Hello, Jaclaz! Are you still there? I moved the hdd from NAS to the main PC and I can begin the imaging, but I don't know exactly what parameters to choose from DMDE "Copy Sectors"-window. There are "Device", "Partition", "File". Is it better to do a "clone" and does I have to format the destination hdd, or DMDE will do this? I ask because I formatted to NTFS the destination hdd under Win7 on my secondary PC, but when I moved it to the main PC(with XP) the disk manager shows "GPT Protective Partition". What to do with this GPT partition? Should I delete it and format again(using third party software) to MFT ntfs, or just to run copy with DMDE?

I read that the so called advanced format HDD is optimized for Vista and newer OS and under XP it needs to be "aligned" with special tool... I think (but not sure) that without the "align"-procedure I will have lower performance. Anyway, I will cope with this task. OK, most likely I will move one HDD from NAS to the main PC. I will write again when I'm ready - probably in Thursday or Friday. Thank you again!

Thank You for the assistance! I have a couple of questions. At first about DMDE: there is "Express" and "Home" version. Is the "Express" enough for my case? I think that the differences between these versions aren't important to me. The next one is more general - I'm not sure what would be better(faster, safer...smarter ): - to free one HDD in my NAS and to make the image there - to free this HDD and move it in my main PC - and because I use 32 bit OS I will have to reformat and align it - to mount this HDD and also the damaged HDD in my secondary PC, where I recently installed Win7 or to buy a new - 4 TB HDD and mount it in the NAS? The problem is that my main PC has only one free SATA port and old OS, and my secondary PC has a case(CM Elite 360), that doesn't support more than 3 HDD's by default and there are already 2(I could connect another 2 but the cooling can be a problem).

http://www2.zshares.net/7rjdwmauz1zz - this is from Noname02.

You at first wrote that 2 TB HDD will be enough and now - won't be enough? I already was thinking about buying a 4 TB HDD to put it into last free slot in the NAS. I know that more than 2 TB won't work with XP, but right now I can't exchange XP with 7... I think the file system for my NAS is ext3 or ext4. Because of the low network speed(I use a cheap router) I agree that it maybe would be better to mount this HDD in the PC. But then I will have to format and align(or reversely) it. So if only the speed will be the problem here, and not the space - I will copy through the LAN. I'm not very comfortable with command line tools. Would you tell me how exactly to get those 100 sectors with DMDE? $Noname02 $MFT - LBA 16373784

My last screenshot definitely wasn't 100 MB - it was 154 kB. I resized it to 89 kB but I received the same error. No matter anyway... In the first post I wrote that when I tried to recover the lost partition with Partition Wizard, after that I rebooted and then in the corresponding step of the starting process XP ran its tool for disk checking. I didn't stopped it and maybe this made the situation worse. I use the free version of DMDE - is this a problem? Maybe it is better to use dadarescuedd? The destination will be 2 TB "green" HDD in D-Link DNS-345. It won't be a problem that it runs under linux(file system) - right?

Sorry but now I can't upload another screenshot - "You can upload up to Uploading is not allowed of files (Max. single file size: 100MB)" - don't know why. In $Noname02 I can't see nothing under MetaData and $Root. Instead in $Noname01 I see what I uploaded already.

Yes - when I initially mounted this HDD, I used the tool(Acronis I think) recommended from WD to align the partition from 512 b to 4 k - I use 32 bit OS. I don't see nothing on NTFS0. On NTFS1 $Root I see only RECYCLER and System Volume information. In the Metadata I see 14-oct-2010 - the date I bought the HDD. In NTFS1 $MFT I see this:

I mounted this HDD many months ago and I don't remember - I guess it is possible. From HxD I saw that there are symbols from sector 77453312 to 93916713 and from 138270720 to 3907024064 and also in the first sector. ntfsscan.log.txt

OK - I will try again. I had 2 partitions - G and H on WD20EARS. The first one was 8 GB and not formatted. I didn't want to see the letter for that partition so I decided to delete it from the Disk Managemen tool in XP. Then the second - ntfs-partition disappeared. I loaded Parted Magic but didn't write nothing to HDD. In the past I managed to recover accidentally lost partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard so I used it again. Then I ran Wizard - Partition Recovery Wizard - I don't know if this is some kind of formatting... It definitely didn't take hours - I think it is the first or second case. I didn't perform reading/copying "key" sectors - don't know how. There are only Zeroes on sector 22661691. The symbols begin at sector 138270720.

I have some LOG, but I don't know if this is enough or I should go further with TestDisk actions. OS is XP 32 bit and I used the standard tool - Disk Management. According to TestDisk the main partition should start at sector 16370235 and end at sector 3907024064. I tried to recover the main partition with PartitionWizard - Partition Recovery Wizard. It showed start at sector 16370298 and end at 3907020601. Does this mean that I should go for file recovery and not partition recovery? I was hoping that if I resize this now looking empty partition to it's correct boundaries... "First check you should make would be to use a disk viewer/editor and verify that absolute sector 22661691 is the actual start of $MFT ." - PartitionWizard shows: Partition type ID: 0x7 Serial Number: 0x1cb6bb8c1f403a0; First Ph sector: 16370298; Last Ph. sector: 3907020601 - Is that you ask for? Should I try to make a copy with Data RescueDD? I have a NAS and I can use one 2 TB HDD that I have there. testdisk.txt

It is actually 2 TB - WD20EARS. Something got wrong with the partitions and maybe also with the XP check disk tool that ran afther one reboot ater I(was thinking) recovered the main partition with PartitionWizard.

The analisys says - "The harddisk seems too small" - 4497 GB. There are two FAT16 partitions and I don't know where they came from.

Hello! This is my problem and I hope somebody here can help me. HDD is WD20EARS - for data only - not system.OS is XP 32 bit. When I first installed this HDD, I reserved some 8 GB partition(not formatted) and the rest 1.8 TB was used for the files. Today I decided to delete this not formatted partition because I didn't want to see it between the other drive's letters. Obviously this was a big mistake because the second partition also disappeared with all of the files there. At first I tried PartedMagic with TestDisk and it showed start of the main partition at sector 16370235 and end at 3907024064 sector and total 3890653830 sectors. I am not so familiar with partition management so I tried to recover the partition in XP with PartitionWizard. This program showed slightly different sectors for the beginning ant the end of the partition. I think this was my second mistake because after PW finished, it showed ntfs-partition but there was nothing. XP still wasn't able to see the partition so I rebooted the system. Then appeared those blue screen with check disk tool and after the check the partition appeared in XP, but it is empty. Can I really recover the partition or at least most of the files? I now run deep analysis with TestDisk and afther several hours(the next morning here ) I wil have some results. This is powerful tool and I don't know exactly what to do so I will need help.