IIRC, a chkdsk /f is a possible answer to fix the problem. I’ve been able to turn a RAW back to NTFS in the past. If that fails, I use www.recovermyfiles.com <http://www.recovermyfiles.com> . It works wonders every single time even if formatted.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Bodnar Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] partition or data recovery? It’s been quite a while and I’ve not done a lot of this type of thing. So help would be appreciated: My dad’s hard drive died (4 year old HP desktop). So I took out the drive and slaved it to one of my machines at home. It sees (2) partitions one of which is the recovery partition and it sees fine as NTFS (no data). And the other it saw as RAW, and that’s the one that the OS and data were on. I downloaded EaseUS Partition Master and it saw the partition as NTFS and showed the correct amount of used space (on the right track). Had it do a scan/fix but no luck still not able to access anything win Windows. So I formatted it, so windows could see it. Then I used the EaseUS data recovery tool. That found the partitions and seemed to see all the directory structures and the files(more good news). It ran over night and looked like it found everything but when I restored a few test files, they were corrupt. I’m hoping that maybe a better took (GParted ?) might help? Thoughts? Thanks Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 <mailto:> [email protected] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America <http://www.guardianlife.com/> www.guardianlife.com _____ ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
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