USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

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Re: USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

#11 Post by cgrenier »

Run "chkdsk /f d:" (replace d: by the correct drive letter), can you access your data again after that ?

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Re: USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

#12 Post by pasc »

THANKS !

This recovered the files I thought would be missing :)

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Re: USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

#13 Post by abenson »

I am in the exact same boat. In my case I get the warning that my bytes per sector mismatch (512 (NTFS) != 4096 (HD))

When I try to repair I also get the write error. I have tried chkdsk /f and am told it does not work on RAW drives.

Please help!

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Re: USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

#14 Post by pasc »

I had cases where using a different dock got the harddrive recogniced correctly again.

Maybe this is the Case for you auswell ?

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Re: USB Disk - system file RAW, disk seems too small

#15 Post by cgrenier »

When dealing with disk with 4096 bytes sector, use TestDisk 7.0-WIP instead of old versions. Previous version may report an erroneous warning after write operation.

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