That will be the best option.

GerryPeters,

HDDs or SSDs cannot be a reason for a non-boot . As dalchina pointed out you have a serious hardware problem in the HP motherboard. The BIOS chip is not getting the power or...

OK. Tell us what happens when you replace the power brick with the the new one. Post a screenshot of Windows Disk Management.

Image restored on to a HDD not booting is a common and known problem. You may google search on the topic. It does not in anyway confirm that the power supply is bad.

Instead , delete all the...

OK. It is an AIO -All-in-one PC. - just like my Dell Inspiron 22 - 3280 AIO

If you have a Multimeter you can easily check the output voltage which should be 19.5 V - D.C. The inner pin is always...

Just curious. Your wife's HP DeskTop - Does it have an external power brick? What is the model no?

boowho

"Help if you can, please" - It will help us help you if you post a screenshot of Windows Disk Management.

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If the external drive does not show up in Windows Disk Management, Disk genius, and Seagate Seatools , no DIY data recovery is possible.

Try the external disk in another working PC. If it doesn't...

KADD

OK. I was only wondering how you were able to so quickly complete the task. Good going. You may mark the thread as Solved.

KADD

Really? How were you able to do it so quickly? If I have to believe it, you should post a screenshot of Windows Disk Management and Partition Wizard.

Hi KADD

Through the day, I did a small experiment to refresh myself. I created three partitions on my 500GB Seagate external HDD akin to the three partitions in your Sabrent external...

KADD

Hold on. I am a little wary of going ahead with [Rebuild BS] command. It will write the rebuilt boot record into the partition start sector and partition end sector. In all probability, say...

KADD
TestDisk is highly interactive. According to the present condition the screens may differ.( In your case you are keeping the original C: drive as it is with the OS still resident in it..So...

KADD

We will now take a deviation. Go upto Screen 5 as you did before. ( Do not forget to run TestDisk as administrator)

Screen1: Select/highlight [No Log] Press Enter ( You will use the...

KADD

That is something inexplicable. How did it become a FAT16 partition?

OK. may be instead of executing [Boot] command you have to highlight [Type] and then change the partition type to...

satyr37,

Do it at your own time and leisure..

Being what it is, it is difficult to predict the end result. Hope for the best and take it on the stride.

satyr37,

Since you have installed an OS on the 2TB disk, it has completely changed the partition structure in the 2TB disk creating four new partitions... So I do not think Partition Recovery of...

satyr37

I have seen your post.

How many partitions did you have in that 2TB disk? If you had more than one partition, in quick format you will lose only the first partition - partition cannot...

continuing........

Boot your Dell Precision 3540 . Plug in only your faulty 238 GB External disk. In Windows Disk Management note down the drive letter of the second partition in the external disk...

KADD

Here we go.

First read my post #9 and 10 here https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/183116-restore-last-data-external-hdd.html#post2271749 That will give you an idea what you should...

KADD

I have seen your post. When you wake up tomorrow morning you can see a detailed post on how to proceed further.

The common theme in both these ancient you tube videos is that they changed the controller card with the same part number.The Op's My book is over 6 years old . Today if he goes and buys the same WD...

KADD,

Welcome to Ten Forums.

That you had installed MiniTool partition Wizard v9.1, did run TestDisk, also installed Bootice indicates you have done quite some research and have read some of...

Absolutely. I suspect that the SATA to USB interface bridge circuit has failed. You already know that bridge circuit also contains a hardware encrypt/ decrypt chip and it encrypts the data written...