Hi.. i need help regarding unknown mistake i do while processing testdisk command. below i attach screenshot my file system, lately i was trying to recover my lost partition, it seem work but i only can watch my original files. Now only left useless files. my question, could i recovered back all files in this screenshot that appear unknown file. This partition actually windows xp, before it work properly, after i do some assignment all file is freeze. and i were hope i can get back my xp without formatting this partition. Thank you for viewing

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"unknown mistake" / "some assignment": what did you do?
"processing testdisk command": what did you do? Did you enable testdisk logging on the command line? If you did, can you *attach* the log file?


Did you make a backup before recovery?


If you have an installation or restore disk then I would not bother restoring system files like "ntldr" as they can be reinstalled. Your "Windows" and "Program Files" directories are no longer recognized as a directory but they only contain applications which are expendable: can be reinstalled too. What is bad is that I spot a "testdisk.log" in the partition which means you mounted the partition in read-write mode *and* tried to run testdisk from the partition to recover from somewhere before making this post.

My advice to you is to think hard about which files you need to recover. If you're new to recovery then it will cause stress and aggravation while reinstalled OS files is faster. If you can not or do not want to make a backup then save your "Documents and Settings" directory elsewhere, cut your losses and reinstall the OS. If you want to recover files please first make a backup of the partition to a file on a physically different hard disk.

What is fresh in my head, i done image creation. after i finish then reboot, and i couldn't see my files when mounting. new files i didn't see before coming to my screen, i were assume that files came from image creation.i do enable the logging, but no idea where the file is located. i try to access files at /dev/window/log and when open is show nothing

no i don't. i thought i can recovery the partition and proceed to next step

if no solution to recovered back i do formatting. since only valuable data on my document and setting and i can copy and save to other partition using testdisk

With the information provided I think that would be the least painful most efficient solution.