Ah. Thanks for that. Chkdsk wouldn't recognize it before so I hadn't thought to go back and try again. But that explains what's going on:
C:\>chkdsk /f f:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
An error occurred while reading the file allocation table (FAT 1).
An error occurred while reading the ...
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- 10 Oct 2015, 19:51
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Testdisk seems to work but drive still says "unformatted"
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- 10 Oct 2015, 00:36
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Testdisk seems to work but drive still says "unformatted"
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Testdisk seems to work but drive still says "unformatted"
Anyway, I am trying to recover an external drive and have a strange problem. Testdisk finds the partition and I can list files, and copy individual files to my system. Testdisk appears to write the partition table successfully, but if I disconnect the drive and reconnect it, Windows still says it's ...