Tried to fix drive suddenly becoming RAW problem, I think I made things worse
Posted: 24 Aug 2017, 19:08
My external drive (PQI 567L 500GB) became RAW as I unplugged it while I was downloading a torrent onto it, turns out driver letters were scrambled when I reinstalled the windows and I unplugged the wrong drive
Anyway, I tried fixing my problem following this guide https://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to ... ecame-raw/
I did nearly everything as it is said in that tutorial but in my case I was greeted with a warning :"Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 255 but the correct value may be 128" I ignored it. Quick search found only one partition: something - NTFS that contained my files so I wrote a new partition table without a problem (I mean it did not ask to fix the boot sector) After restart I got an error about unrecognisable USB drive so I uninstalled Unknown drivers and restarted my PC, the drive did show up but it was blank so I decided to write a new partition again but now I tried to change heads from 255 to 128 unfortunately I modified cylinders instead of heads, I really messed up. Then I tried to change CHS how it was before 60801/255/63 I think? (I am not sure). Since then I can not find any partition at all, it says partition read error, windows error message said "wrong parameter" (only I think it has stopped showing this error) and whenever I open my drive this testdisk CHS is set to 976784067 1 1
So is there any hope I can fix my drive without losing data? And will formatting at all fix the problems?
Anyway, I tried fixing my problem following this guide https://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to ... ecame-raw/
I did nearly everything as it is said in that tutorial but in my case I was greeted with a warning :"Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 255 but the correct value may be 128" I ignored it. Quick search found only one partition: something - NTFS that contained my files so I wrote a new partition table without a problem (I mean it did not ask to fix the boot sector) After restart I got an error about unrecognisable USB drive so I uninstalled Unknown drivers and restarted my PC, the drive did show up but it was blank so I decided to write a new partition again but now I tried to change heads from 255 to 128 unfortunately I modified cylinders instead of heads, I really messed up. Then I tried to change CHS how it was before 60801/255/63 I think? (I am not sure). Since then I can not find any partition at all, it says partition read error, windows error message said "wrong parameter" (only I think it has stopped showing this error) and whenever I open my drive this testdisk CHS is set to 976784067 1 1
So is there any hope I can fix my drive without losing data? And will formatting at all fix the problems?