First thing I would do is recheck the wires at the breakers with a test lamp
or any meter that you actually make contact with. Any tester that works off
of an electrical field, may not work accurately inside of a panel. If indeed
all breakers are good, check the outlets to see if its the hot or neutral
that's dead, and then check connections at any working outlets or switches
nearby the dead ones








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I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm ), and all it tells me is that
all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead
circuit and no idea where it gets fed from.