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3TB drive win7 ntfs partition as RAW!

Posted: 27 Dec 2013, 18:44
by gilav
Hi All
please help me!! this is my entire life on this drive after windows restart the drive came up as raw drive.
the disk is healthy, not tiks..
running test disk is giving me this error and I cant use P to view files!
I am a newby to disk recovery and I dont know how to proceed!


TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Analyse cylinder 26285/364800: 07%


HPFS - NTFS 16 113 34 364798 148 22 5860225024
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
0 D HPFS - NTFS 12215 215 33 12216 25 33 4096
HPFS - NTFS 12215 215 33 12216 25 33 4096
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 2 (FAT) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 18 (FAT) != 63 (HD)
FAT12 12215 215 33 12216 6 14 2880 [NO NAME]

Re: 3TB drive win7 ntfs partition as RAW!

Posted: 02 Jan 2014, 12:47
by gilav
Hi All
I have been successfully restored my drive data using the diskinternals tool, though test disk wasnt able to repair my MFT while my BS is ok.
today 3 fdays later my restored drive suffered from same issue!!!
what is going on?
I tried td again BS states as ok but MFT repair fails corrupted.
my HW is old gigabyte motherboard with AHCI disks on bios.
formerly disks was raided on software raid onboard gigabyte which failed.
today my restored destination was sitting on the intel AHCI onboard controller.
WTF!!!???
please help I cannot lose my DATA every week!!!