I was forced to reset my pc due to explorer completely destroying itself and having rebooted the disk is shown as RAW in computer management and is unreadable. What is the best method for getting the old filesystem back or creating a new one losing as little data as possible?
RAW file system
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It's just a storage drive but windows stopped recognising it as being an ntfs partition.
I tried using Piriform recuva but it would seem that the reason that explorer crashed in the first place was because I opened a file that was on a bad sector of the disk. Because of this fault, no scan I tried with any application got past 2% without hanging.
I'm now several hours into trying to recover a disk image with ddrescue in ubuntu rescue remix. Hopefully once it's done I'll be able to use recuva, photorec or somethign similar to get my stuff back.
All in the best case scenario is that I have to buy a new storage device during this current price increase with the worst being I lose all my data.
It's a good thing my housemate has 2 spare 1TB harddives lying about that allow me to use ddrescue properly.
If anyone has any better suggestion for recovering the files I'm all ears but it will have to wait until ddrescue is finished and my new drive arrives!
I tried using Piriform recuva but it would seem that the reason that explorer crashed in the first place was because I opened a file that was on a bad sector of the disk. Because of this fault, no scan I tried with any application got past 2% without hanging.
I'm now several hours into trying to recover a disk image with ddrescue in ubuntu rescue remix. Hopefully once it's done I'll be able to use recuva, photorec or somethign similar to get my stuff back.
All in the best case scenario is that I have to buy a new storage device during this current price increase with the worst being I lose all my data.
It's a good thing my housemate has 2 spare 1TB harddives lying about that allow me to use ddrescue properly.
If anyone has any better suggestion for recovering the files I'm all ears but it will have to wait until ddrescue is finished and my new drive arrives!
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Use a linux live cd like Ubuntu, boot in to linux and you may be able to browse the drive.... thats if the drive is readable.
I used both Testdisk and Photorec on a 500GB Toshiba USB (powered) external HDD (with RAW file system) and I got the best results with Photorec...
Recuva didn't even "see" the HDD...