am trying to recover an external hard drive that is not able to be read and Windows wants me to format it. I use it for recording music and there is data on it that I can't lose. So I began the scan, it didnt found partitions, but on a quick scan I get,
and
"The following partition can't be recovered:
After a deep scan ialso not found ant thing . How can i recover my data now
After a Quick Search and deep search , there had no partition listed.
no partition found
It showed Key A: add partition, L: load backup, enter: to continue
I am thinking to press enter: to continue, but would like to know what will happen after I press enter?
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External Hdd becomes Raw type how to recover data
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Re: External Hdd becomes Raw type how to recover data
Try TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.
Re: External Hdd becomes Raw type how to recover data
Hi, I have the same problem: my 3Tb hdd is "seen" only as RAW by Windows 7. I state that:
- It is precisely an external HDD that I use as archive
- It's a WD green SATA mostly used with windows 7, so it had NTFS partition
I used Photorec (from windows) and it only makes me recover some files (which it renames in its own way), after which I used Testdisk, from windows, after doing the disk analysis, it warns me that there is a mismatch meaning the disk geometry, then I continued with Quicksearch and all the folders with all the files inside are showed, everything looks like in the right place (at least visually), after this I tried to do a saving test of some files according to Testdisk procedure, and copying them into another hdd, Testdisk was able to recover them. Now I would like to ask: I realized that copying simple jpg pictures or 200mb rar archives or 300/400mb video files and pasting them into the other hdd is a very very slow operation, so there is a way to speed up the copying process or maybe this very slow copying process is normal? If I try to do like you suggest (Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer), may I will be able to access the disk normally or there is any data loss risk?
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Re: External Hdd becomes Raw type how to recover data
There should be no risk as long as you choose Write ONLY if TestDisk can list your files.rafnet wrote: ↑09 Apr 2020, 12:28>
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Testdisk was able to recover them. Now I would like to ask: I realized that copying simple jpg pictures or 200mb rar archives or 300/400mb video files and pastinge them into the other hdd is a very very slow operation, so there is a way to speed up the copying process or maybe this very slow copying process is normal? If I try to do like you suggest (Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer), may I will be able to access the disk normally or there is any data loss risk?
Re: External Hdd becomes Raw type how to recover data
Thak you for the reply, I tried to do Analisys first:
Next Quicksearch:
then this is the result:
so, choosing "P", I can see all directories and files on the hdd and is also possible to make a copy of them into another hdd:
But as I already told, the copy process is very slow, like 200kbs!!!
I also tried to to: Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS as you told before, but I realized that the rebuilding process is very very slow too: it started at 3 a.m. and after 16 hours the MFT searching was still in a position like 39087445/784594260 (I don't exactly remember what numbers there were), I think it likes to be about at only 5% done after 16 hours!.
Do you think it's necessary to make the rebuilding process ends by waiting for all those hours, or I may risk to straining too much the hdd and damaging it further?
Next Quicksearch:
then this is the result:
so, choosing "P", I can see all directories and files on the hdd and is also possible to make a copy of them into another hdd:
But as I already told, the copy process is very slow, like 200kbs!!!
I also tried to to: Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS as you told before, but I realized that the rebuilding process is very very slow too: it started at 3 a.m. and after 16 hours the MFT searching was still in a position like 39087445/784594260 (I don't exactly remember what numbers there were), I think it likes to be about at only 5% done after 16 hours!.
Do you think it's necessary to make the rebuilding process ends by waiting for all those hours, or I may risk to straining too much the hdd and damaging it further?
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