Recover Windows Recovery Partition from RAW to NTFS
Posted: 13 Feb 2023, 21:58
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
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).
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.
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 SystemI 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 HealthyNow 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.