USB Hard Drive found as Raw after re-formatting Xbox 360
Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 05:44
Hi I have a 500gb SEAGate Goflex HDD.
It was being used for both Windows and Mac (FAT 32) and had a 1gb Xbox partition for a few DLC. I wanted to increase the Xbox partition size so I deleted it (on the Xbox) and chose to format it for 32gb. It showed a "Cant Configure" error so I tried again with the same error. It then showed up as a Raw on Xbox 360 and wanted to be reformatted.
I plugged it into Windows and it took awhile to be detected and also showed up as a Raw and wanted to be reformatted.
I found out about Testdisk and ran an analysis and the Fat 32 partition didnt show up. I ran deeper search and it showed up with a "Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinders" error DURING the search but had no option to be selected after the Deeper Search was finished overnight.
How should I proceed? Should I run Chkdsk on it?
I am already attempting to recover some files with Photorec but its less than optimal since the filenames are jumbled.
My brother's files are on it and it would be very helpful. Thank you.
I cannot seem to attach my testdisk.log here
It was being used for both Windows and Mac (FAT 32) and had a 1gb Xbox partition for a few DLC. I wanted to increase the Xbox partition size so I deleted it (on the Xbox) and chose to format it for 32gb. It showed a "Cant Configure" error so I tried again with the same error. It then showed up as a Raw on Xbox 360 and wanted to be reformatted.
I plugged it into Windows and it took awhile to be detected and also showed up as a Raw and wanted to be reformatted.
I found out about Testdisk and ran an analysis and the Fat 32 partition didnt show up. I ran deeper search and it showed up with a "Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinders" error DURING the search but had no option to be selected after the Deeper Search was finished overnight.
How should I proceed? Should I run Chkdsk on it?
I am already attempting to recover some files with Photorec but its less than optimal since the filenames are jumbled.
My brother's files are on it and it would be very helpful. Thank you.
I cannot seem to attach my testdisk.log here