4Tb drive went RAW, can i recover?
Posted: 01 Jan 2019, 18:56
Hello all,
I have a 4TB drive, a wdc wd40ezrx-00speb0 that i use as a storage drive. it recently went RAW and most programs only find about 1800GB, which i suspect was the free space. i was following the instructions on the testdisk page, but the scan results were completely unlike the step by step. from what i understand, there might be a "boot sector" of the drive, and that tells the drive what it is, and that is corrupted and telling it it is unformatted? i know the data is there because data recovery software shows it during a scan, but i havent done anything-recovery or otherwise to the drive yet as i would like to learn how to fix this error.
i have run the scan and it waits for my next input-
I have a 4TB drive, a wdc wd40ezrx-00speb0 that i use as a storage drive. it recently went RAW and most programs only find about 1800GB, which i suspect was the free space. i was following the instructions on the testdisk page, but the scan results were completely unlike the step by step. from what i understand, there might be a "boot sector" of the drive, and that tells the drive what it is, and that is corrupted and telling it it is unformatted? i know the data is there because data recovery software shows it during a scan, but i havent done anything-recovery or otherwise to the drive yet as i would like to learn how to fix this error.
i have run the scan and it waits for my next input-