Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
> Christophe GRENIER <grenier at cgsecurity.org>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org
>
>
> Disk /dev/sdd - 160 GB / 149 GiB - INTEL SS DSA2M160G2GC
>
> Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done.
>>[Intel  ] Intel/PC partition
>  [EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...)
>  [Humax  ] Humax partition table
>  [Mac    ] Apple partition map
>  [None   ] Non partitioned media
>  [Sun    ] Sun Solaris partition
>  [XBox   ] XBox partition
>  [Return ] Return to disk selection
>
> After selecting an Intel/PC partition type, testdisk finds no
> partitions on the initial and the deeper scans.  Not a thing.

If you had F16 installed, you might have had a GPT partition table
instead.  If that doesn't work, photorec is probably your last, best
hope.

-T.C.