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by jonathanhiott
29 Aug 2018, 13:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: WD 1TB showing as RAW
Replies: 4
Views: 1845

Re: WD 1TB showing as RAW

Sadly, the WD drive has tons of read errors so a full recovery looks unlikely. Trying the freezer trick. :roll:
It did recover about 2 gig of data to my spare drive however.
When I plug the spare drive into Windows it says the drive needs to be formatted. How can I access the recovered data?
Is ...
by jonathanhiott
24 Aug 2018, 18:37
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: WD 1TB showing as RAW
Replies: 4
Views: 1845

Re: WD 1TB showing as RAW

Thank you for that information!

When trying to run ddrescue disk copy:
ddrescue /dev/sdb /dev/sdd sdb.log
I get output:
ddrescue: Output file exists and is not a regular file.
ddrescue: Use '--force if you really want to overwrite it, but be aware that all existing data will be lost.

sdd is a ...
by jonathanhiott
23 Aug 2018, 16:36
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: WD 1TB showing as RAW
Replies: 4
Views: 1845

WD 1TB showing as RAW

Help please!
My External WD 1TB is suddenly showing as RAW. I have ran HDDscan and no SMART data is showing for the drive.
Tried running TestDisk Deep Scan and no partitions are found. When running the test, it shows numerous read errors and the scan takes about a day to finish
Tried running ...