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Wrote Raspberry Pi image to external drive, now stuck

Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 21:43
by sidneylopsides
Hi,
I was writing a new image to an SD for my Raspberry Pi and selected the wrong drive letter.
I have a 1TB Seagate USB3 external drive that I use for my Lightroom catalogue, and that got the image.

When I look with Get Data Back I can see a 932GB NTFS filesystem and everything is there.
When I scan with Testdisk it is showing me a 56MB FAT16 and a 1000MB Linux partition.

I know the file system is intact, but I can't work out what I need to do to make it "live" again. In windows storage manager it shows a 932GB RAW.

Is there a way to reactivate the NTFS partition?

Thanks!

Re: Wrote Raspberry Pi image to external drive, now stuck

Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 21:47
by cgrenier
Run TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search, Deeper Search, the NTFS partition should be listed.
Set this partition as P(rimary), on next screen, choose Write, confirm, BackupBS, confirm, Quit

Re: Wrote Raspberry Pi image to external drive, now stuck

Posted: 25 Feb 2016, 20:47
by sidneylopsides
Thank you for the reply. I've done this, and now I just have a single NTFS primary partition according to Testdisk, but windows still sees it as RAW. Have I missed something?

Re: Wrote Raspberry Pi image to external drive, now stuck

Posted: 26 Feb 2016, 21:31
by sidneylopsides
Fixed! I ran chkdsk /f on the drive and it's back as normal