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by Voltage
14 Mar 2012, 06:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW
Replies: 9
Views: 15449

Re: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW

I've just changed the geometry to the suggested 255 (was 240). Will see what I happens once its found the linux partition again. It's a standard 3.5 inch SATA 2 drive (1TB).
by Voltage
13 Mar 2012, 11:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW
Replies: 9
Views: 15449

Re: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW

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by Voltage
13 Mar 2012, 08:15
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW
Replies: 9
Views: 15449

Re: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW

Thanks Fiona. I went through and after a deeper search it found the Linux partition however it said it wasn't recoverable? I checked under the Advanced menu but couldn't see the superblock option you mention.

Is the file system to far gone to recover?
by Voltage
12 Mar 2012, 12:25
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW
Replies: 9
Views: 15449

Re: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW

Hi Fiona. Thanks for your reply. I think I may have corrupted the file system at some point. I have tried using ext2fsd but had no luck accessing the drives - it seems to detect three partitions, two very small ones and then what would be the main partition however it is shown as RAW (one of the ...
by Voltage
12 Mar 2012, 11:12
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW
Replies: 9
Views: 15449

EXT3 Drives now showing as RAW

Hi all,

So I managed to cock up my two drives I took from my NAS. They were formatted as EXT3 which if I understand correctly, TestDisk can handle? (Correct me if I'm wrong).

Unfortunately, after placing them into my new PC, they are now showing as RAW in Windows 7 and of course Windows wants to ...