NTFS external HDD changed to FAT16
Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 01:25
Hello,
I need a little bit of help and after pending a good 12 hours today trying to go through forums and google to try and fix this issue i have caved and decided to ask the smarter people for help.
I have a WD caviar black (less than 1.5 yo) external hdd.
This morning i woke up to find it saying its inaccessible. So after a bit of googling i found the TestDisk.
Firstly i tried these steps (with no results!!!!) mind you the results said both primary and backup boot sectors were bad
A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key.
B. Select which drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and <Enter>.
C. Select partition type – Intel if it’s a PC then <Enter>.
D. Select “Advanced” then <Enter>. The drive will be analysed.
E. Select the partition and choose "Type", then <Enter>.
F. Choose 07 (NTFS), press <Enter>.
G. Confirm by typing "07", press <Enter>.
H. Choose "Boot", <Enter>.
I. Select "Rebuild BS", <Enter>.
J. Choose "List". <Enter>.
K. Can you see your files? If so, choose "Write", <Enter>.
Type testdisk and press enter.
Choose No Log and hit enter
Make sure that your disk is highlighted
Choose Proceed and hit enter
Select Intel and hit enter
Select Advanced and hit enter
Make sure that the problematic partition is highlighted and
Select Boot and hit enter
Neither of the two actually worked....so i went back to the cgsecurity.org site where I tried to follow these steps here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step but after the analysis i am missing the "list" option to check my files...also...it shows it to be FAT16 and not NTFS.
I left the testdisk window open at this stage...just in case you need me to take any further action (as it took me a few good hours to run the analyser)
Please help me.
I run Win7 ult (64 bit)
If you require any other details please let me know
Thanks
I need a little bit of help and after pending a good 12 hours today trying to go through forums and google to try and fix this issue i have caved and decided to ask the smarter people for help.
I have a WD caviar black (less than 1.5 yo) external hdd.
This morning i woke up to find it saying its inaccessible. So after a bit of googling i found the TestDisk.
Firstly i tried these steps (with no results!!!!) mind you the results said both primary and backup boot sectors were bad
A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key.
B. Select which drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and <Enter>.
C. Select partition type – Intel if it’s a PC then <Enter>.
D. Select “Advanced” then <Enter>. The drive will be analysed.
E. Select the partition and choose "Type", then <Enter>.
F. Choose 07 (NTFS), press <Enter>.
G. Confirm by typing "07", press <Enter>.
H. Choose "Boot", <Enter>.
I. Select "Rebuild BS", <Enter>.
J. Choose "List". <Enter>.
K. Can you see your files? If so, choose "Write", <Enter>.
Type testdisk and press enter.
Choose No Log and hit enter
Make sure that your disk is highlighted
Choose Proceed and hit enter
Select Intel and hit enter
Select Advanced and hit enter
Make sure that the problematic partition is highlighted and
Select Boot and hit enter
Neither of the two actually worked....so i went back to the cgsecurity.org site where I tried to follow these steps here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step but after the analysis i am missing the "list" option to check my files...also...it shows it to be FAT16 and not NTFS.
I left the testdisk window open at this stage...just in case you need me to take any further action (as it took me a few good hours to run the analyser)
Please help me.
I run Win7 ult (64 bit)
If you require any other details please let me know
Thanks