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by SinusPi
06 Apr 2018, 10:49
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Diskpart says RAW. Chkdsk says NTFS. Testdisk says MBR is OK and reads files. So..?
Replies: 2
Views: 2007

Re: Diskpart says RAW. Chkdsk says NTFS. Testdisk says MBR is OK and reads files. So..?

I did, eventually, try chkdsk and indeed it fixed the drive without a hitch. I wonder, therefore, if that wasn't a case of Windows protecting the filesystem from damage, although it would've been nicer on its part if it mounted it in read-only mode. I guess that's a "case closed", with big thanks to ...
by SinusPi
04 Apr 2018, 21:57
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Diskpart says RAW. Chkdsk says NTFS. Testdisk says MBR is OK and reads files. So..?
Replies: 2
Views: 2007

Diskpart says RAW. Chkdsk says NTFS. Testdisk says MBR is OK and reads files. So..?

Windows volume management displays my external HDD as RAW and refuses to read it.
Diskpart displays my drive's partition type as RAW and doesn't want anything to do with it.
Chkdsk says it sees an NTFS system and offers to fix bad indexing in file entry 5, but - as that's the root folder in NTFS - I ...