Hi all,
Need help...
1. I hv to kill the power when my laptop froze last wk, it got stuck at DIsk read error upon reboot. So borrowed d installation disk from a friend and got to the System recovery page. Tried startup repair and gave up after 36 hrs!
2. Tried bootrec and eventually do not need d CD to boot up but still stuck in startup repair loop.
3. Cut d long story short, discovered d main drive which contains my wins 7 is in Raw file system. Chkdsk takes forever.
4. My question now is how do I recover d raw sys to ntfs with min data loss since I hv no access to internet from this laptop?
Pls help, I m gg crazy
Drive containing Windows 7 became raw
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Hd partition lost and main drive remains Raw state
Hi all,
Managed to use an ext hd to run testdisk in cmd prompt ytd. After following the steps in cgsecurity, my main drive c: which contains wins 7 remains raw and my d: disappeared. Using diskpart, I realised my hd is now only half d size.
What can I do now? I tried to repeat the last few steps with different variations IE bootable to primary n vice versa to no avail.
Managed to use an ext hd to run testdisk in cmd prompt ytd. After following the steps in cgsecurity, my main drive c: which contains wins 7 remains raw and my d: disappeared. Using diskpart, I realised my hd is now only half d size.
What can I do now? I tried to repeat the last few steps with different variations IE bootable to primary n vice versa to no avail.
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Re: Drive containing Windows 7 became raw
I think there are bad sectors. You should clone your disk to a new empty one using gnu ddrescue.
See https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk"
See https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf "Creating a live USB" and "DDRescue: data recovery from damaged disk"
Re: Drive containing Windows 7 became raw
Hi cgrenier,
Thx for d reply.. I managed to find my d: after d 2nd restart.
Is there a dummy guide to solve tis issue as I hv never study programming b4. I can't even copy d files which I found in c: using testdisk, so how do I clone my c: ?
I can only access internet thru my handphone which sadly diskpart could not recognize or else I can run whatever exe file required
Thx for d reply.. I managed to find my d: after d 2nd restart.
Is there a dummy guide to solve tis issue as I hv never study programming b4. I can't even copy d files which I found in c: using testdisk, so how do I clone my c: ?
I can only access internet thru my handphone which sadly diskpart could not recognize or else I can run whatever exe file required