Data recovery problem

ubersonic · 8 Feb 2012 at 08:26

Friend of mine gave me a hard drive claiming it had gone screwy and they needed important files on it, hadn't tried anything like this in years but thought I would have a go. Under disk management it can see the main partition however it appears as RAW not NTFS, the old test-disk program can see it as an NTFS partition which it says is good but cannot list the directory's/files however its sister program Photorec can copy files off it fine.

However rather than dump the data from an entire 500GB partition into randomly named folders on a good drive I would much prefer to try and get this partition readable so I can just copy off what's needed.

Any help? Thanks.

ubersonic · 8 Feb 2012 at 09:52

Its connected on a sata cable in my Vista machine, Windows can't acess the partition though. Ironically I have managed to recover the Acer recovery partition on the disk but not the main partition where the needed data is >.< lol

Its pretty sad I used to be really good at this stuff like a decade ago

ubersonic · 8 Feb 2012 at 10:26

edscdk said:
does it show as a partition?

if it does try a chkdsk /f - it may get stuck for ages leve it overnight...

Shows as a RAW partition in disk manager, in My computer you can see it and it has a drive letter but cannot access it, chkdsk doesn't work.

ubersonic · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:52

Yeah ive tried mounting it from Linux but that doesn't work either, im now dumping all the files to an external drive with photorec, its going to be a joy searching randomly named directories for randomly named files but its something I guess lol.