Has anyone used TestDisk to recovery hard drive partitions? I have have a shucked drive from a Seagate SRD00F2 external drive (Amazon link), that to the best of my knowledge does not run hardware ...

Perform low-level disk repair and file recovery–from a command prompt or DOS box–with this handy pair of utilities. If you’re a fan of character-based interfaces–such as DOS–and free data recovery, ...

Sometimes, a virus or manual error corrupts the different partitions on the hard disk. It is also possible to damage the boot sector or MBR in an attempt to recover ...

If you delete and don't format, TestDisk may be able to help you out ...