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by warmbeers
26 Jan 2018, 18:46
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Re: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

Hoping i can get a bit more detail about the screens as i work thru this fix.
Is there documentation somewhere about the information provided? Apologies if it exists i was unable to locate it.
For example when i get the first screen where the disks are listed the disk i am interested in is listed as ...
by warmbeers
25 Jan 2018, 16:38
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Re: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

Responds with:
"The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
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by warmbeers
24 Jan 2018, 15:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Re: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

Is this thing beyond recovery?

Maybe i wasn't clear in my last post, after the rebuild BS attempt, which i think failed (but maybe that is the way it is supposed to work? :? ) trying a list crashed the program.
Still unable to access the data from Win Explorer and drive still shows as RAW in Disk ...
by warmbeers
18 Jan 2018, 16:40
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Re: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

I ran testdisk
Selected my disk, selected None for the partition type - which showed a single P NTFS partition
Quit to get back to the menu with Advanced
Chose Advanced - Boot - got the warning about mismatches X3 and Backup BS Status: Bad
Chose Rebuild BS - ran for a while showing ...
by warmbeers
16 Jan 2018, 18:48
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Re: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

The drive has been used primarily on 2 different machines but also several others over time. I've never had to consider the 512 VS 4K but when i recently tried to look at the drives on either CPU (msinfo32/Components/Storage/Disks) they all seem to be set for 512 on both CPUs including the problem ...
by warmbeers
15 Jan 2018, 08:07
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild
Replies: 8
Views: 5900

Need more details for Boot Sector Rebuild

NTFS 4 TB WD Green turned to RAW, probably due to use in supposed hot swap dock.
After a deep search with testdisk i got some sort of error including "Not an exFAT boot sector. Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
Tried running again and it came up showing "Non partitioned media" with ...