My Book Essential WDBAAFxxxxHBK missing Partition

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Hello friends, First of all excuse me for my poor English , It’s my third language .

I have My Book Essential WDBAAF0020HBK - 01 0611N /[Deleted] - FEJMLD/ 2 terabyte , comes preformatting as NTFS,. my problem started after backing up my data on Linux Ubuntu 10,

when i Plug it on windows the partition become RAW and the smart-ware cannot read my partition any more because it’s missing , so my friend advice me to delete and restore the partition again ,

when the software (ACTIVE RECOVERY) found the partition it gives me options, and I don’t know which one to choose

1.Basic/Dynamic MBR/GPT Primary/Extended

2.after choosing Automatic it report that I have to fix the" Primary boot sector" by duplicate “Copy of Boot Sector” or “Boot Sector Template”:

the fields are as follow:

Capacity: 1999695245312

Serial Number: 09BD-0F00

Head signature:NTFS

Bytes Per Sector: 512

Sectors Per Cluster:8

Total Sectors :3905654783

Index block Size:4096

Signature (55AA):55AA

MFT record Size:1024

All Above fields are identical in (PBS/CBS/BST)

These Below fields are different in each (PBS/CBS/BST)

Cluster MFT:2 / 786432

Cluster MFT Mirr: 786432 / 2

Hidden Sector:2048 / 63

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Hello Mate,

I think you should go to the software support in order to get better assistance…

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Does the external HD auto mount or mount ok while you are using Ubuntu ?

My guess is you need to create a seperate partition for your Ubuntu back-up stuff using an ext or ext2 partition. But I too would recommend getting advice from WD support.

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Hi , I can’t find the software support  section , can you please give me the link if you don’t mind , Thanks for the help .

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