Write partition structure, but nothing happens
Posted: 14 Apr 2013, 04:33
Hi,
I'm trying to fix an external drive that is displayed as RAW on windows. I think I am getting the steps on TestDisk right, but even if I choose "write partition structure on disk" and reboot the computer, nothing happens! It's still "RAW" and if I run TestDisk again, it shows the same wrong partition structure on quick search, as if nothing changed on the drive. I'm guessing I need to confirm the operation somehow.
Any help is much appreciated!
Further information:
It's a 1TB NTFS external drive, it wont mount on Windows and is shown as "RAW" by disk manager. On Linux, it opens normally, except for some random corrupted files. I'm running TestDisk from Linux. Quick search shows me a wrong FAT32 LBA bootable partition, then deeper search finds the correct NTFS partion, with correct file listing. It's shown as Deleted, I set it to Primary, and proceed to "write partition structure on disk". Confirm with "y", then [Ok], quit two times to exit TestDisk and reboot the computer. Nothing happens, though. Everything will see the drive the same way, no changes are made to it!
I'm trying to fix an external drive that is displayed as RAW on windows. I think I am getting the steps on TestDisk right, but even if I choose "write partition structure on disk" and reboot the computer, nothing happens! It's still "RAW" and if I run TestDisk again, it shows the same wrong partition structure on quick search, as if nothing changed on the drive. I'm guessing I need to confirm the operation somehow.
Any help is much appreciated!
Further information:
It's a 1TB NTFS external drive, it wont mount on Windows and is shown as "RAW" by disk manager. On Linux, it opens normally, except for some random corrupted files. I'm running TestDisk from Linux. Quick search shows me a wrong FAT32 LBA bootable partition, then deeper search finds the correct NTFS partion, with correct file listing. It's shown as Deleted, I set it to Primary, and proceed to "write partition structure on disk". Confirm with "y", then [Ok], quit two times to exit TestDisk and reboot the computer. Nothing happens, though. Everything will see the drive the same way, no changes are made to it!