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by Joerg85
07 Sep 2017, 08:28
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with file system Raw
Replies: 4
Views: 3038

Re: External HDD with file system Raw

Update
Problem has been solved in the meantime by a colleague. As I have been told Win 10 inbuild tools were sufficient to convert it back from raw into NTFS
by Joerg85
20 Aug 2017, 13:21
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with file system Raw
Replies: 4
Views: 3038

Re: External HDD with file system Raw

I did read the instruction and since the disk manager showed the disk as having the file system raw, I only used testdisk.
this what I did
1. I selected 'created'
at the next screen patition table type 'none' has been highlighted by testdisk

2. I selected 'advance'
a the next screen I got:
P ...
by Joerg85
16 Aug 2017, 18:29
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with file system Raw
Replies: 4
Views: 3038

Re: External HDD with file system Raw

I didn't try chkdsk, because the disk manager is showing the disk having now the raw file system and as I understood para 7,5 of testdisk.pdf chkdsk is not available for this file system. Shall I try it nevertheless?

Thanks

Jörg
by Joerg85
15 Aug 2017, 19:00
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with file system Raw
Replies: 4
Views: 3038

External HDD with file system Raw

Dear All

I got a serious problem with an 1TB external USB 3.0 HDD. When using it to move data from an old computer to a new one, out of a sudden the explorer showed it as a local drive and I haven't any chance to open it and to get access to my data. The windows tool 'Datenträgerverwaltung' (don't ...