Recover Windows Recovery Partition from RAW to NTFS

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simonlefisch
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Recover Windows Recovery Partition from RAW to NTFS

#1 Post by simonlefisch »

Hello everyone,

First time poster and came across this tool recently when looking into an issue I came across....

I work for an MSP and I got an alert for one of the servers we manage for our client saying a backup couldn't complete. After looking into it with the software vendor, they found that it is due to one of the server partitions not being a compatible format. I looked into it and found that the Windows Recovery Partition is in fact in RAW format (see code below, Volume 2). Lets call this server2.

server2 partitions

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DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     D                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1     C                NTFS   Partition    249 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2                      RAW    Partition    450 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 3                      FAT32  Partition     99 MB  Healthy    System

I compared the partitions to the other server onsite (we'll call this server1) and verified that the Recovery partition should be NTFS (Volume 2).

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DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     D   WS2016_MUI_  UDF    DVD-ROM     8106 MB  Healthy
  Volume 1     C                NTFS   Partition    249 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2         Recovery     NTFS   Partition    450 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 3                      FAT32  Partition     99 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 4     E   Data         NTFS   Partition    749 GB  Healthy

Now I am still trying to understand how the Testdisk tool works, but I assume I should be able to change the partition from RAW to NTFS, correct? I am going thru the forum to see if there is someone else with a similar issue but I cannot find anything about the Recovery partition itself. I will have more follow-up questions but for now I am just trying to understand how this tool works and if can help recover that partitions so I can get the backups running again.
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