Two external HDDs gone RAW after USB unplugging
Posted: 02 Mar 2016, 23:40
Hi,
I know this is a common problem, but I'm confused by the different instructions I find so far. Maybe someone can help me figure out the next steps:
I have 2 external HDDs that are usually plugged to my PC (Win 10). Yesterday I had them connected to my Notebook (also Win 10) to copy some data and in the end I just unplugged the USBs without using the safe unplugging option (meh...). After replugging to my other PC both HDDs get registered as hard drive but show up as RAW and with different drive letters.
Both are 2,5 inch. One is 500GB, the other 1TB and both are just one partition and NTFS.
What I did so far:
I tried to follow some instructions I found for a recovery with the smaller HDD but ran into some errors:
In TestDisk the HDDs get default table type "None", which I changed to "Intel", since most instructions tell to do so. Also I wasn't sure if I should check the "Drive" oder the "Disk" that gets listed in TestDisk, so I tried both:
Doing a QuickSearch on the "Drive" gives me in the end --> "No partition found or selected"
Then I tried Analyze on the according "Disk":
A Quick Search will not run but gives me the following error: When I continue it shows the NTFS partition: When trying to list files with P after that it just says "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
I’m really not sure what to do now because of the above error. Should I do a “Deeper Search” now and then try to write the partition table?
Or is it more likely to be a problem with the boot sector and I should just do --> TestDisk – Advanced – Boot – RebuildBS ?
Or should I change the Geometry settings first because of the error ?! (I found a suggestion to do that in a similar thread)
I don’t want to damage anything but I’m totally confused what to do now. So I’d be glad if someone could give me advice what the next step in this scenario would be.
(For the sake of safety I currently use PhotoRec to copy everything it can find to another harddrive, but I'd rather have the filesystem back .)
Thanks a lot!
I know this is a common problem, but I'm confused by the different instructions I find so far. Maybe someone can help me figure out the next steps:
I have 2 external HDDs that are usually plugged to my PC (Win 10). Yesterday I had them connected to my Notebook (also Win 10) to copy some data and in the end I just unplugged the USBs without using the safe unplugging option (meh...). After replugging to my other PC both HDDs get registered as hard drive but show up as RAW and with different drive letters.
Both are 2,5 inch. One is 500GB, the other 1TB and both are just one partition and NTFS.
What I did so far:
I tried to follow some instructions I found for a recovery with the smaller HDD but ran into some errors:
In TestDisk the HDDs get default table type "None", which I changed to "Intel", since most instructions tell to do so. Also I wasn't sure if I should check the "Drive" oder the "Disk" that gets listed in TestDisk, so I tried both:
Doing a QuickSearch on the "Drive" gives me in the end --> "No partition found or selected"
Then I tried Analyze on the according "Disk":
A Quick Search will not run but gives me the following error: When I continue it shows the NTFS partition: When trying to list files with P after that it just says "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
I’m really not sure what to do now because of the above error. Should I do a “Deeper Search” now and then try to write the partition table?
Or is it more likely to be a problem with the boot sector and I should just do --> TestDisk – Advanced – Boot – RebuildBS ?
Or should I change the Geometry settings first because of the error ?! (I found a suggestion to do that in a similar thread)
I don’t want to damage anything but I’m totally confused what to do now. So I’d be glad if someone could give me advice what the next step in this scenario would be.
(For the sake of safety I currently use PhotoRec to copy everything it can find to another harddrive, but I'd rather have the filesystem back .)
Thanks a lot!