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by Ornette
16 Sep 2013, 23:06
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Hard Drive in RAW (Please Help)
Replies: 1
Views: 1742

Re: Hard Drive in RAW (Please Help)

Hi

I dont know what windows version that is (I use XP), but after my NTFS partition went raw I done a CHKDSK /r from the Windows XP CD recovery console and it brought back my file system

Testdisk had previously reported errors reading the MFT for that partition (bad sectors in the MFT)

Since ...
by Ornette
12 Sep 2013, 16:36
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!
Replies: 4
Views: 2505

Re: FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!

Hi, yeah, sorry was meant to get back last night but got caught up

I had a play with Testdisk under the advanced settings. It told me the backup boot sector was ok, so I decided to restore that. Looking at it from my other XP computer, the partition was fully visible once more.

Under WinME, I ran ...
by Ornette
06 Sep 2013, 01:17
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!
Replies: 4
Views: 2505

Re: FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated

Yes, it certainly is a FAT32 partition with XP installed on it. I'd actually had the computer dual booted

Looking back through my records, I had repartitioned this machine, firstly to create the extended partition so I could save data, then the NTFS ...
by Ornette
05 Sep 2013, 06:53
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!
Replies: 4
Views: 2505

FAT32 partition accessible under Dos/WinME but not XP!

I've come across Testdisk as a possible means to rescue my hard disk, can anyone help?

I could go on and on about the lead up, but basically, two of the 4 partitions are showing up as RAW when connected to another XP computer.

However the interesting thing is the FAT32 partition is fully ...