If the amount of cylinder is changed, please watch the amount of heads also.
After recovery your partition will be visible to windows.
If there any bad sectors, windows could hang (due to memory errors).
That's why I recommended to check your disk using CrystalDiskInfo to determine the S.M.A.R.T ...
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- 17 Jun 2012, 15:54
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Hard Drive now unformatted??
- Replies: 5
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- 16 Jun 2012, 20:33
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Hard Drive now unformatted??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4469
Re: Hard Drive now unformatted??
Well it finally came back and said structure was ok. I messed up and quit before listing the files.
I found the step by step guide afterwards... :( So I am doing a quick search again. Once I finish that, lists the files, if they are correct, save the structure to disc? I only had one partition ...
I found the step by step guide afterwards... :( So I am doing a quick search again. Once I finish that, lists the files, if they are correct, save the structure to disc? I only had one partition ...
- 16 Jun 2012, 17:23
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Hard Drive now unformatted??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4469
Hard Drive now unformatted??
I have a WD Raptor 150 GB drive that wasmy boot drive. All of the sudden it says the drive is unformatted do you want to format it now? I googled the issue and saw a thread about TestDisk. I downloaded it and have been running it. It is at the point of anyalyzing the cylinders. It says:
150 GB/139 ...
150 GB/139 ...