Access RAW partition.

Grandmaster Fap! · 30 Jul 2011 at 18:52

I have a spare HD with two partitions on it, one is accessible, the other isnt and it's file system is listed as RAW, is there any program(free hopefully) that can either fix the partition or make it accessible so i can save the files on it?

Thanks guys.

Aod · 30 Jul 2011 at 19:18

RAW indicates that the partition table data for that partition is damaged/missing and so the computer doesn't know what filesystem it is. RAW means "no file system" as far as the system can tell

If you know what filesystem it is, then you might be able to manually mount it with linux using the mount command.

Grandmaster Fap! · 30 Jul 2011 at 19:33

Oh blimey, that sounds like a headache, the partition is NTFS and was working fine so i have no idea why plugging it into my new comp as a back-up drive shows it as RAW :/

rpstewart · 30 Jul 2011 at 19:59

Testdisk is what you want.

Grandmaster Fap! · 30 Jul 2011 at 20:31

Beautiful, thanks Rp